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These languages disappeared from Illinois when the U.S. carried out Indian Removal, culminating in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French was the language of colonial Illinois before 1763, and under British rule remained the most-spoken language in the main settlements of Cahokia and Kaskaskia.
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, 2025 [6] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 390 million 1.1 billion 1.5 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 990 million ...
This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
According to the 2022 American Community Survey, the most commonly spoken languages in Chicago by people aged 5 years and over (2,519,527 people): [55] Speak only English: 64.1%; Language other than English: 35.9%; Spanish: 24.3%; Other Indo-European languages: 6.1%; Asian languages and Pacific Island languages: 4.1%; Other languages: 1.3%
English: 1.71M of Cook County, IL citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is higher than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Cook County, IL was Spanish. 19.3% of the overall population of Cook County, IL are native Spanish speakers. 2.65% speak Polish and 1.18% speak Chinese, the next two most common languages.
Of its population, Illinois is the region's most populous with a 2020 population of 12,812,508. [9] ... English is, by far, the most common language spoken at home ...
The official language of Illinois is English, [139] although between 1923 and 1969, state law gave official status to "the American language". Nearly 80% of people in Illinois speak English natively, and most of the rest speak it fluently as a second language. [140]