According to SIL's Ethnologue, over half a million ethnic Swedes still speak the language, though according to the 2007 American Community Survey only 56,715 speak it at home. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss Tamil is taught in weekly classes in many Hindu temples and by associations such as the American Tamil Academy in South Brunswick, Tamil Jersey School in Jersey City, New Jersey,The written form of the language is highly formal and quite distinct from the spoken form. try again, the name must be unique Although the languages of the Americas have a history stretching back about 17,000 to 12,000 years, current knowledge of them is limited. Thirty-one states have adopted English as their official language, most (27 of these 31) since the 1980s. The language statistics are based on responses to a three-part question asked about all members of a target U.S. household who are at least five years old. the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Nepalese Americans were first classified as a separate ethnic group in 1974 when 56 Nepalese immigrated to the United States. to your comment. * Until now, America has never had an official language. No other country had a higher percentage of its people leave for the United States except Ireland and Norway. Many other languages are also spoken in the United States, especially Spanish. Bollywood in particular, as well as film music, is an important cultural product that influences South Asian youth. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post However, there is very little The first Nepalese to enter the United States were classified as "other Asian". {{#replies}} By John Misachi on May 9 2018 in World Facts. It does not ask how well individuals speak any other language of the household. There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts Please * Mass immigration throughout the 20th century means 336 languages are currently in use, including 176 indigenous dialects. Although English is the most commonly spoken language, there is actually no official language in the United States at the federal level.
Another noteworthy Finnish community in the United States is found in The largest Russian-speaking neighborhoods in the United States are found in Modern Hebrew is spoken by Israeli immigrants. Ap… * Over 47 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. * Legend has it that English only defeated German by a single vote to become the official language of the United States, in a 1795 Congressional debate. {{#sender.isSelf}} Yet, such legislation is quite common in the United States. Independent Premium. There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts More than 45 million Americans say their ancestry is German. {{#replies}} A bill known as H.R.997—the English Language Unity Act—was introduced in 2017 in an attempt to make English the official language.David W. Voorhees, "Dutch Political Identity in English New York" in California Department of Motor Vehicles Website (actual website blocked by Wikipedia)A language's endonym may not be available for a variety of possible reasons: The language in question encompasses multiple dialects with unique endonyms; The language in question is actually a Respondents who reported speaking English less than "Very Well." Many South Indians, Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis learn the language through films and music and Hindustani, when mixed with English, is a community lingua franca.Arabic is used for religious purposes by Muslim Americans and by some Arab Christians (notably In addition to Standard Italian learned by most people today, there has been a strong representation of the dialects and languages of Southern Italy amongst the immigrant population (There has been a Dutch presence in America since 1602 when the government of the Dutch was still spoken in many parts of New York at the time of the Revolution. There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts They are concentrated mainly in The first Finnish settlers in America were amongst the settlers who came from Sweden and Finland to the Between the 1890s and the outbreak of the first World War, an estimated quarter million Northern Clark County, Washington (encompassing Yacolt, Amboy, Battle Ground and Chelatchie) contains a large exclave of Old Apostolic Lutherans who originally immigrated from Finland. Besides English, Spanish, French, German, Moreover, English is one of the official languages in all of the U.S. territories. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies As it is the national and most spoken language of the Philippines, most Filipinos in the United States are proficient in Tagalog in addition to their local regional language. For example, African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist In a 1990 demographic consensus, 3% of surveyed citizens claimed descent from Dutch settlers. Historically, the US was home to some six or more sign languages (that number rising with the probability that Plains Sign Talk is actually a language family with several languages under its umbrella) which has fallen with the death of several of these. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Three varieties of French developed within what is now the United States in colonial times: In the early twentieth century, German was the most widely studied foreign language in the United States, and prior to Additionally, Hindi-Urdu is an important cultural language for South Asians who have different mother tongues. continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Thus, some respondents might have only a limited speaking ability of that language.The ACS does not tabulate the number of people who report the use of English is the most common language spoken in the United States with approximately 239 million speakers.