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Recent immigrants from other US regions and foreign countries are causing a linguistic shift in Texas. Spanish speakers have risen to almost a third of the population; Vietnamese and Chinese [22] have replaced German and French to become the third and fourth most spoken languages in Texas, respectively; with Hindi, Korean, Kurdish especially ...
70 native speakers (2013) Critically endangered Montana Salish language. Karuk language [1] 12 native speakers, 30 L2 (2007) Severely endangered Kashaya language [1] 24 native speakers (2007) Critically endangered Kawaiisu language [1] 5 native speakers (2005) Critically endangered Kickapoo language (Kansas) [1] 1,141 native speakers in USA (2013)
The list contains 1,603 communities in 44 states, with 1,101 of these having Spanish as the plurality language, 89 an Indo-European language other than English or Spanish, 35 an Asian or Pacific Islander language, 176 a language not yet listed, and 206 with an English plurality but not a majority.
In 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau published information on the number of speakers of some 350 languages as surveyed by the ACS from 2009 to 2013, [9] [10] but it does not regularly tabulate and report data for that many languages. The most spoken native languages at home in the United States in 2020 were: [4]
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
However, out of those 256 languages, 238 are in the realm of extinction. [2] That is, 92% of languages that are dying. The United States has the highest number of dying languages, 143 out of 219 languages, [ 3 ] then Canada with 75 dying out of its 94 languages, [ 4 ] and lastly, Greenland has the smallest number, nil of its two spoken languages.
Uto-Aztecan has the most speakers (1.95 million) if the languages in Mexico are considered (mostly due to 1.5 million speakers of Nahuatl); Na-Dené comes in second with approximately 200,000 speakers (nearly 180,000 of these are speakers of Navajo), and Algic in third with about 180,000 speakers (mainly Cree and Ojibwe).