Language of America

Language of America States with "English Only" Law: 33 States without “English Only" Law: 23 Over 300 Languages spoken in The United States Major Language According De Facto Bilingual States 2000 Census • Louisiana (English and French) • Maine (English and French) • New Mexico (English and Spanish) • Texas (English and Spanish) 6' English |Chinese Spanish E Korean Vietnamese Tagalog States With Highest Concentration of Bilingual Speakers Only People in West Virginia Speak Another Language California O Arizona 2% New Mexico Illinois Texas Florida O Nevada New York Largest Native American speaking community: Navajo: 178,000 speakers Dakota: 18,000 speakers Central Alaskan Yup’ik: 16,000 speakers Cherokee: 22,000 speakers % of Other Languages used by Bilingual Speakers 55.4million Others Asian-Pacific people of the United States speak a language other than English at Spanish Indo-Europcan home. Pennsylvania, Most known area of German speaking citizens It's about 148,000 Yiddish speakers in US. OF 49 million Americans Yiddish words used in US EN: claim that they have THE STATE -Mazel: luck -Witz: joke -Chutzpah: daring/audacity German ancestors • Only 1.24 million of them speak German at home. The Marke ing |Analys s themarketinganalysts.com PENNS