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Fact Sheets: Languages Spoken in the United States According to the 2000 U.S. Census

Total Languages: 322

Abnaki, Achumawi, African, Afrikaans, Ahtena, Alabama, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, American Indian, Amharic, Apache, Arabic, Arapaho, Arawakian, Arikara, Armenian, Assamese, Athapascan, Atsina, Azerbaijani, Aztecan, Balinese, Balochi, Bantu, Basque, Bengali, Berber, Bielorussian, Bihari, Bikol, Bisayan, Blackfoot, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Caddo, Cahuilla, Cajun, Cantonese, Carolinian, Catalonian, Caucasian, Cayuga, Chadic, Cham, Chamorro, Chasta Costa, Chemehuevi, Cherokee, Chetemacha, Cheyenne, Chinese, Chinook Jargon, Chiricahua, Chiwere, Choctaw, Chumash, Clallam, Cocomaricopa, Coeur d'Alene, Columbia, Comanche, Cree, Croatian, Crow, Cupeno, Cushite, Czech, Dakota, Danish, Delaware, Delta River Yuman, Diegueno, Dravidian, Dutch, Efik, English, Eskimo, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Foothill North Yokuts, Formosan, Fox, French, French Cree, French Creole, Frisian, Fuchow, Fulani, German, Gilbertese, Greek, Gujarathi, Gullah, Gur, Haida, Hakka, Han, Havasupai, Hawaiian, Hawaiian Pidgin, Hebrew, Hidatsa, Hindi, Hopi, Hungarian, Hupa, Icelandic, Ilocano, India (n.e.c.), Indonesian, Ingalit, Inupik, Irish Gaelic, Iroquois, Italian, Jamaican Creole, Japanese, Javanese, Jicarilla, Kachin, Kalispel, Kan, Hsiang, Kannada, Kansa, Karachay, Karen, Karok, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Keres, Khoisan, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Kirghiz, Klamath, Koasati, Korean, Koyukon, Krio, Kru, Ibo, Yoruba, Kuchin, Kurdish, Kusaiean, Kutenai, Kwakiutl, Ladino, Laotian, Lettish, Lithuanian, Luiseno, Lusatian, Luxembourgian, Macedonian, Makah, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Mandan, Mandarin, Mande, Maori, Mapuche, Marathi, Marquesan, Marshallese, Mayan languages, Mbum (and related), Melanesian, Menomini, Miami, Miao, Hmong, Miao-Yao, Mien, Micmac, Micronesian, Mikasuki, Misumalpan, Mohave, Mohawk, Mokilese, Moluccan, Mongolian, Mon-Khmer, Cambodian, Mono, Mountain Maidu, Munda, Muskogee, Navaho, Nepali, Nez Perce, Nilo-Hamitic, Nilo-Saharan, Nilotic, Niuean, Nomlaki, Northern Paiute, Norwegian, Nubian, Nukuoro, Ojibwa, Okanogan, Omaha, Oneida, Onondaga, Oriya, Osage, Other Athapascan-Eyak, Other Uralic Lang., Oto-Manguen, Ottawa, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Paiute, Pakistan (n.e.c.), Palau, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Panjabi, Papia Mentae, Pashto, Passamaquoddy, Patois, Pawnee, Pennsylvania Dutch, Penobscot, Persian, Picuris, Pidgin, Pima, Polish, Polynesian, Pomo, Ponapean, Ponca, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Puget Sound Salish, Quapaw, Quecha, Quechua, Quinault, Rajasthani, Rarotongan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Romany, Russian, Sahaptian, Saharan, Salish, Samoan, San Carlos, Scottic Gaelic, Sebuano, Seneca, Serbian, Serbocroatian, Shawnee, Shoshoni, Sierra Miwok, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Sonoran (n.e.c.), Spanish, Spokane, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Sudanic, Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tadzhik, Tagalog, Tamil, Tanaina, Tarascan, Telugu, Tewa, Thai, Tibetan, Tiwa, Tlingit, Tokelauan, Tongan, Towa, Trukese, Tsimshian, Tungus, Tupi-Guarani, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuscarora, Twana, Uighur, Ukrainian, Ulithean, Upper Chehalis, Upper Chinook, Upper Tanana, Urdu, Ute, Vietnamese, Walapai, Washo, Welsh, Wichita, Winnebago, Wintun, Woleai-Ulithi, Wu, Wyandot, Yapese, Yaqui, Yavapai, Yiddish, Yuchi, Yuma, Yupik, Yurok, Zuni

The language data is obtained from Census 2000 and refers to the population age five and older speaking a given language at home. Data is subject to Census confidentiality protections, which suppresses information directly identifiable to a person or small group of people.


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