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Population and Language Distribution in America
Also reflective of language and population dispersion are German-speaking Americans. People of German ancestry represent the largest single ethnic group in the United States. German, fifth on the list of common languages in the U.S., is vastly spread out but has concentrations in the upper Midwest and Pennsylvania where Amish communities speak Pennsylvania Dutch, a dialect of German. It is interesting to note that the commonality of German being spoken in America declined sharply after the First World War due to the perception that it was unpatriotic.
With the U.S. still high on the list of immigrant-friendly countries, there are a host of other languages that are somewhat common in America. Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese each have over one million speakers in the United States. These languages, along with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, are used in elections in a handful of states. Furthermore, Hawaiian is used in state-level politics in Hawaii, and Louisiana declared French an official language alongside English in 1974. Other states and American territories that have taken it upon themselves to declare official or de facto languages are: New Mexico (English and de facto Spanish); Maine (English and French, both de facto); American Samoa (Samoan and English); Northern Mariana Islands (English, Chamorro, and Carolinian); and Puerto Rico (Spanish and English). Also, Native American languages are official or co-official on many U.S. Indian reservations. | Back
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