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The 2015 update comes from American Community Survey data. In 2005 the U.S. Census Bureau retired its census long form, instead using ACS estimates to track language use. For 2015, a total of 107,616 people in Louisiana (5 years old and older) were estimated to speak French, including Cajun French, Patois, and other varieties of French.
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [4] Also known as Kouri-Vini, [1] it is spoken today by people who may racially identify as white, black, mixed, and Native American, as well as Cajun and Creole.
Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Colonial French, Creole & Cajun Languages Tell Their Story. BookRix GmbH & Co. KG. Malveaux, Vivian (2009). Living Creole and Speaking It Fluently. AuthorHouse. Picone, Michael D. (1997). "Enclave Dialect Contraction: An External Overview of Louisiana French". American Speech. 72 (2): 117– 153. doi:10.2307/455786.
Today, people speak Louisiana French or Louisiana Creole, mainly in more rural areas. Also, during the '40s and '50s, many Creoles left Louisiana to find work in Texas, mostly in Houston and East Texas. [104] The 5th ward of Houston, initially named Frenchtown, is known for its prevalent use of the French language and music.
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 ...
Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen, locally called Creole) is a language spoken primarily in Haiti: the largest French-derived language in the world, with an estimated total of 12 million fluent speakers. It is also the most-spoken creole language in the world and is based largely on 17th-century French with influences from Portuguese, Spanish ...
Many of the New England communities are connected to the dialect found across the border in Quebec or New Brunswick. More than 13 million Americans possess primary French heritage, but only 2 million speak French, or any regional creoles and variations language at home. The largest concentration of French speakers in the country is in Louisiana.
[53] [57] Harassment and intolerance from English speakers left many Missouri French speakers ashamed of their language and hesitant to speak. [58] Use of French on school property was prohibited and it was not uncommon for students to face corporal punishment by monolingual, English-speaking teachers for using the language. [59]