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The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (especially American English), which is the de facto national language. In addition, 32 U.S. states out of 50 and all five U.S. territories have declared English as an official language.
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.
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...
American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, [b] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. [4] English is the most widely spoken language in the United States. It is an official language in 32 of the 50 U.S. states and the de facto common language used in government, education, and ...
List of sign languages by number of native signers; List of language families (with number of speakers) List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; Number of languages by country; Languages used on the Internet; List of ISO 639-3 codes; Lists of languages; List of languages by number of ...
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
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. United States Spanish US Spanish Español estadounidense Pronunciation [espaˈɲol estaðowniˈðense] Native to United States Speakers 43.4 million (2023) Language family Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castillian Spanish United States ...
The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in the federal 2020 American Community Survey, [1] making French the seventh most spoken language in the country behind English, Spanish (of which it is the second Romance language to be spoken after the latter), Chinese, Tagalog ...