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French, the seventh most spoken language in the United States according to the 2020 ACS, is the fourth most common when dialects such as Haitian Creole are combined and counted as French. It is spoken mainly by the Louisiana Creole , native French , Cajun , and French-Canadian populations, along with more recent immigrants from Haiti.
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties , such as Arabic , Lahnda , Persian , Malay , Pashto , and Chinese .
Below are the top foreign languages studied in American institutions of higher education (i.e., colleges and universities), based on the Modern Language Association's census of fall 2021 enrollments. "Percentage" refers to each language as a percentage of total U.S. foreign language enrollments.
This category is for languages spoken in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), whether indigenous or introduced by immigrants. The main article for this category is Languages of the United States .
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... United States: 219 116 335 4.71 326,756,719
About 489 million people in the world speak Spanish as their first language. Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States are where most Spanish speakers live.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 43.4 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home (13.7%). [1] Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, [3] with about 8 million students. Estimates count up to 58.9 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers.