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Of the languages spoken in Texas, none has been designated the official language. As of 2020, 64.9% of residents spoke only English at home, while 28.8% spoke Spanish at home. [ 1 ] Throughout the history of Texas , English and Spanish have at one time or another been the primary dominant language used by government officials, with German ...
Indigenous languages of Texas (3 C, 15 P) S. Spanish language (20 C, 70 P) Pages in category "Languages of Texas" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 ...
The Language Access Act of 2004 guarantees equal access and participation in public services, programs, and activities for residents of the District of Columbia who cannot (or have limited capacity to) speak, read, or write English. Speakers of Amharic, French, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese and Korean receive additional accommodations. [23] [24]
Due to hundreds of years of Spanish and later Mexican intermingling, around 6 million (ca. 29%) people in Texas speak Spanish as the first language. [33] Recent data shows that Spanish is still increasing. [34] Since there are so many Spanish speakers in Texas, Spanish has a high impact on the English dialect spoken in Texas. [35]
Texas German borrows about 5 to 6 percent of its vocabulary from English.' [9] Boas' book on the language, The Life and Death of Texas German, describes the German dialects which may have been the source of the language spoken in Texas. [10] A short documentary project named "All Güt Things" was produced about Texas German in 2016. [5]
Pages in category "Indigenous languages of Texas" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Kickapoo language (Texas) [1] 1,141 native speakers in USA (2013) Vulnerable There are 420 speakers in Mexico but the number is mixed with Sauk and Fox (2010). Kiksht language [1] Critically endangered Kings River Yokuts [1] 0 Extinct [4] Kiowa language [1] 100, all levels; [5] 20 first-language speakers [6] Severely endangered Kiowa Apache ...
Coahuiltecan was a proposed language family in John Wesley Powell's 1891 classification of Native American languages. [1] Most linguists now reject the view that the Coahuiltecan peoples of southern Texas and adjacent Mexico spoke a single or related languages. [2]