A Map of Languages in the United States


http://www.mla.org/census_main
The Modern Language Association Language Map
The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The census data were based on responses to the question, "Does this person speak a language other than English at home?" The Language Map illustrates the concentration of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers.

Useless trivia: out of a total of 3,373 census takers in my home town, 334 are non-English. And while the number 1 non-English language is no surprise, the other 250 people are a complete mystery.

Hmmm,

MLA Data Center Results
Zip Code: 02657
All languages other than English combined
334

African languages
0

Arabic
0

Armenian
0

Chinese
20

English
3,039

French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
47

French Creole
0

German
33

Greek
0

Gujarathi
0

Hebrew
0

Hindi
0

Hungarian
0

Italian
53

Japanese
0

Korean
0

Laotian
0

Miao, Hmong
0

Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
0

Navajo
0

Other Asian languages
0

Other West Germanic languages
6

Other Indic languages
0

Other Indo-European languages
30

Other Native North American languages
0

Other Pacific Island languages
0

Other Slavic languages
0

Other and unspecified languages
0

Persian
0

Polish
0

Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
81

Russian
0

Scandinavian languages
0

Serbo-Croatian
0

Spanish or Spanish Creole
64

Tagalog
0

Thai
0

Urdu
0

Vietnamese
0

Yiddish
0

Total:
3,373

Posted: Thu - June 24, 2004 at 03:56 PM            

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