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Most of these people of Indian origin are Punjabis, Bengalis, and South Indians. Some Indians sought and obtained political asylum after 1984. Some Indians have come to Sweden from Uganda in the 1970s. [3] According to Statistics Sweden, India is among the most common countries of birth for international adoptions in Sweden. As of 2016, there ...
Spaniards in Sweden (Swedish: Svenskspanjorer) are citizens and residents of Sweden who are of Spanish descent. There are approximately 7,124 people born in Spain living in Sweden today, as well as 8,266 people born in Sweden with at least one parent born in Spain.
This might be due in part to the growing Hispanic population and the increasing popularity of Latin American movies and music performed in the Spanish language. A 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the United States Census Bureau, showed that Spanish was spoken at home by over 35 million people aged 5 or older, [81] making the ...
In the United States, 372,000 people reported speaking an Indigenous language at home in the 2010 census. [5] In Canada, 133,000 people reported speaking an Indigenous language at home in the 2011 census. [6] In Greenland, about 90% of the population speaks Greenlandic, the most widely spoken Eskaleut language.
According to the 2005 American Community Survey, only 56,324 Americans continue to speak the Swedish language at home, down from 67,655 in 2000, [49] most of whom are recent immigrants. Swedish American communities typically switched to English by 1920.
Over 3.4 billion people (42% of the global population) speak an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the most of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, of which 313 belong to the Indo-Iranian branch. [1]
Of the more than 498 million people who speak Spanish as their native language, more than 455 million are in Latin America, the United States and Canada, as of 2022. [2] The total amount of native and non-native speakers of Spanish as of October 2022 well-exceeds 595 million.
There are numerous Swedish descendants in places like the United States and Canada (i.e. Swedish Americans and Swedish Canadians), including some who still speak Swedish. The majority of the early Swedish immigrants to Canada came via the United States. It was not until after 1880 that significant numbers of Swedes immigrated to Canada.