“The United States is a multilingual country Due to immigration ” – describes” The Washington Post “.
Data on the Office of the Population List (Census) show – among the languages other than English – a clear way of Spanish with a number of 41,254,941 users.
The next places are taken by Chinese (3 404 634), tagal (1 715 436) and Vietnamese (1 523 114). Arab, French, Korean and Russian also belong to the group of languages with over a million users. German closes the top ten.
According to “The Washington Post” 22 percent US residents At the age of 5 and the elders, she spoke a different language at home than English. This is twice as much as 40 years ago, which indicates the growing cultural diversity of the country.
The variety of languages in the USA. Where is the most spoken in Polish?
Polish has its bastions. In a Illinois deals second place Among the foreign languages after Spanish with PLN 174.4 thousand users.
The AP agency assigns it mainly One of the largest clusters of Polonia in the region Chicago. In a New York 85,160 people use Polish, which places this language on 12th position in this part of the country.
The size of the population of people of Polish origin in the US significantly exceeds the number of active ancestors' language users.
According to Census data from 2019, a metropolitan area Chicago It is inhabited by over 732 thousand Americans of Polish origin, NewYork – 664 tys., And Detroit – 377 thousand
“Language pearl in the USA”. Over 160 languages are used here
The real language pearl is the New York district of Queens. Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) recognizes her as an area where Over 160 languages are used.
It makes Queens one of the most diverse in terms of language places in the world.
Over 60 percent speaking people At home, a language other than English He declares a very good knowledge of Washington's language. It proves successful integration while maintaining a native cultural heritage.
Sources: AP, “The Washington Post”, PAP