Top Languages Spoken in the U.S. After English and Spanish

what is going on everyone welcome back to the world according to briggs one of the most common questions i get from

viewers outside the united states is where can they live if they're from whatever country they happen to be from

my first answer is always the same thing wherever you want and that's the truth you could move wherever you want no

matter what language you're speaking come here go through the process enjoy your life the truth is 90 of us

residents will greet you with open arms or they just don't care where you're from doesn't matter to them they got

their own thing going on but you have that 10 percent that might dish out a little discrimination or straight up

racism and that's everywhere not just in certain states cities or countries for that matter it's everywhere on the

planet but what they're really getting to is where is the best fit for them and their culture there's more than a few

ways you could approach this subject you could look at how many hate crimes they have hate crimes are usually an

indicator you don't want to move to this place but what i settled on was what i found at the us census it's probably not

the most scientific way to come at this but it is very interesting what state has the most people speak in your

language if there's more people speaking your language someplace chances are the ones that came before you found the

place to be very welcoming obviously english and spanish will be number one and number two so we'll be looking at

the 10 after english and spanish after number two i'll give you some other facts about some other languages that

didn't make the list that are very interesting all right let's take a look number 10 portuguese yeah portuguese

this one kind of surprised me i thought it would be higher on the list i grew up in southern california and we have a few

languages that are everywhere portuguese being one of them where i grew up in the south bay of los angeles there's a large

brazilian community actually that's where the gracies are from and in brazil they speak portuguese i was a little

surprised that portuguese isn't even one of the major languages spoken in california it's actually comes in at

number 16. but there are a few states where portuguese is the most common language spoken after english and

spanish and those states are rhode island connecticut and massachusetts the u.s census estimates there are

000 847.000 speaking residents in the united states making up 1.2

of the foreign language speaking residents number nine german this one was a little

surprising too i really thought we'd have more german-speaking states and more german-speaking people the united

states has always had a good-sized german population sure some went back during world war ii there was this

volkswagen thing where germany said all true aryans come back to the fatherland there's a little under 900 000 in total

that went back to germany for that i couldn't find the exact numbers for the united states so i think it was just a

very small amount interesting little fact about the german population here german is most commonly spoken in north

dakota iowa kentucky and south carolina of all places i didn't see that one coming german is the most common

language spoken at home by 900 000 people living in the united states making up 1.3 percent of the foreign

language speaking residents just to be clear that percentage i'm giving is from the foreign language speaking residents

not the entire u.s population number eight haitian creole in case you don't know what creole is haitian creole

it is a language that is the french-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide so

there's a lot of them just not going on on the island of haiti you know at first i thought this was wrong but then i

found out there's a difference between french creole and haitian creel i didn't know that before now i do florida's the

only state where this is a prominent language behind english and spanish u.s census estimates there are 915 000

people living in the united states that speak haitian creole at home making up 1.4 percent of the foreign language

speaking population in the us number seven russian russian doesn't have any particular state where they're

the most dominant language after english and spanish but they do have three different states where they're actually

number four behind english spanish and something else those are alaska new york and new jersey russian is the most

common language spoken at home in the us by 951 000 residents it's estimated that's about a third of the 2.9 million

russians that actually live in the united states and those russian-speaking u.s residents make up 1.5 percent of the

foreign language speaking residents in the us number six korean i could see this one

again like portuguese where i grew up in southern california there was a very big korean community especially in the

torrance area korean is one of the most common foreign spoken languages in washington dc and it's the fifth most

spoken language in california korean is the most common spoken language at home in the u.s for 1.1 million koreans

making up 1.6 percent of the foreign speaking population of the us number five french and louisiana french

there's a difference it is estimated that 1.2 million u.s residents speak french or louisiana french if you're not

sure what louisiana french is it's french people that stayed in the louisiana eastern texas area after the

louisiana purchase as the generations went on their language sort of evolved with the people that were around them so

it's got words from english spanish native american and african languages and that louisiana french is still

spoken at home by about 175 000 residents in louisiana and texas french by itself is also spoken in vermont new

hampshire and maine right behind spanish like i said it is estimated that 1.2 u.s residents speak french or louisiana

french making up 1.7 percent of the foreign speaking population number four arabic i was a little

shocked at this one i really thought this wasn't as big a thing but in michigan it is i reached out to my

friend who i've talked about before on this channel and asked him about is there a lot of arabic people in michigan

he said oh yeah it's really big that in somali smally's not nearly as big as arabic but he goes there's big arabic

communities throughout michigan but it's not just michigan tennessee has arabic as their third most used language in the

state arabic is the most common language spoken at home in the us by 1.26 million residents making up 1.9 percent of the

foreign speaking residents number three vietnamese the united states has been a landing spot for the

vietnamese people for many years it really picked up steam at the end of the vietnam war in 1975. even though they

were in the united states a lot of them are still very attached to their culture and their heritage and they continue to

speak vietnamese at home five u.s states have vietnamese as their third most commonly spoken language those states

are texas oklahoma nebraska mississippi and georgia but california and texas have the most overall vietnamese

speaking people california just has something else that blows vietnamese way out of the water it is estimated that

1.5 million americans speak vietnamese at home 2.3 of the foreign speaking population speak vietnamese

number two tagalog if you don't know what tagalog is it is the language that they speak in the philippines we have a

lot of filipinos living in the united states there's actually a good size community here in oregon but they didn't

make the cut here in oregon for one of the top languages have you ever listened to gallo as an american or someone that

doesn't speak the language it sounds very very fast like they're going a mile a minute i mean it's very interesting

don't get me wrong i'm not talking bad about them but to someone like me who speaks english a little bit of spanish

and some russian it sounds like they're talking a mile a minute in the united states almost 1.8 million people speak

tagalog at home making up 2.6 of the foreign speaking population the only state that has tagalo as their

number three language behind english and spanish is nevada all right before we get to number one don't forget we have

another channel called on this day there's a link down below and a couple quick facts about this one that didn't

make the list arizona new mexico their number three language behind english and spanish is navajo that's not a foreign

language that's really from here so i feel weird saying that but you get what i'm saying also another one that almost

made the cut illinois polish and pennsylvania dutch in indiana ohio and i guess parts of pennsylvania also up in

montana and wyoming they have it listed as other native languages there's like five different ones up there and in

wisconsin you have mong all right on to number one and number one cantonese and mandarin

basically chinese i know that's a major oversimplification but you know i don't want to spend 30 minutes discussing the

differences standard mandarin chinese is the official language of the people's republic of china and taiwan as well as

one of the four official languages of singapore so it's used by a lot of people on this planet and here in the

united states it is third behind english and spanish in 17 different states it is estimated that 3.5 million people living

in the united states speak mandarin or cantonese as their main language at home the states it is most common in are

california washington oregon idaho utah colorado kansas missouri alabama new york pennsylvania virginia west virginia

north carolina new jersey again delaware and maryland 5.2 percent of the foreign speaking people in the united states

speak cantonese or mandarin [Music] all right that's today's video hope you

guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it and go out have a great day

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