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Persons Speaking a Language Other than English at Home, 2000

LanguagePersons 5
years old
and over who
speak language
Population, 5 years and over262,375,152
Speak only English215,423,557
Speak other language46,951,595
Spanish or Spanish Creole28,101,052
Other Indo-European languages10,017,989
 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)1,643,838
 French Creole453,368
 Italian1,008,370
 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole564,630
 German1,383,442
 Yiddish178,945
 Other West Germanic languages251,135
 Scandinavian languages162,252
 Greek365,436
 Russian706,242
 Polish667,414
 Serbo-Croatian233,865
 Other Slavic languages301,079
 Armenian202,708
 Persian312,085
 Gujarathi235,988
 Hindi317,057
 Urdu262,900
 Other Indic languages439,289
 Other Indo-European languages327,946
Asian and Pacific Island languages6,960,065
 Chinese2,022,143
 Japanese477,997
 Korean894,063
 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian181,889
 Miao, Hmong168,063
 Thai120,464
 Laotian149,303
 Vietnamese1,009,627
 Other Asian languages398,434
 Tagalog1,224,241
 Other Pacific Island languages313,841
Other languages1,872,489
 Navajo178,014
 Other Native North American languages203,466
 Hungarian117,973
 Arabic614,582
 Hebrew195,374
 African languages418,505
 Other and unspecified 144,575
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000, Summary File 3, Table PCT 10, released Feb. 25, 2003.

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