Although Koreatown is somewhat of a misnomer: it got its name from the predominance of Korean-owned businesses on Olympic and Eighth Street, rather than from a concentration of Korean immigrants and Korean-Americans. The area as a whole is majority Latinx; we lived in the mostly black and white part of Koreatown (9th and Hobart) in the 70s and the white/Latino/South Asian part (9th and Catalina) in the 80s.
and you sound pressed over someone else using inclusive language. If you don't want to say the x, then don't. It is as easy as that. Oh, and by the way, all language/words are made up, that's how it works.
yea but as a whole the hispanic community has said no to latinx cuz it literally does not fit in the spanish language, we're fine with calling everyone latino
Spanish is obvious to everyone. Chinese is a logical guess considering their world population. Filipinos make sense by sheer observation of living in LA. Koreans and Armenia have the largest municipal concentration here outside their respective countries. Given the number of Vietnamese and Persian food restaurants, they make sense. Japanese have a historical presence albeit small. Russians and Arabs are good guesses based on world population.
There was a lot of east asian immigration to California during the Gold Rush and on, Asians tended to come in from the west and Europeans came in from the east in terms of
You don't even need to have been to Los Angeles to get beyond Spanish. Living anywhere in non-rural California should get you Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog easily. If you learned about internment then Japanese should cross your mind (although it did surprise me given how many Japanese are third-generation or more!). Korean, Persian, and Armenian are really the only ones that require knowledge of Los Angeles in particular.
For non-Californians though I see how it could be more difficult, but if you've ever been here it's definitely not a crap-shoot :p
Farsi is accepted as a type-in. I read that Persian has become the preferred name. As for Chinese, the US Census department seems to lump Mandarin, Cantonese, and others under that umbrella term.
In which case "European" ought to be first on this list and "Asian" second, with little footnotes attached as well. Man - this quiz could've been easy!
All of the European countries are MUCH farther away from LA than the Asian countries. Generally speaking, the East Coast gets more European immigrants and the West Coast gets more Asian immigrants, simply because they're what's closest.
Arabic is actually used more in Northern Africa than Asia, with majorities in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan; and minorities in Mali, Niger, Chad, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
Also, even though there are a ton of Latin Americans in LA, they all speak the same language... whereas the Asians don't. Which is why Spanish beats out all of the other top ten languages combined.
At my son's elementary school in sort of central LA he had classmates who spoke Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Burmese. I am probably leaving out a few others. (His Russian-speaking classmate sounded like Natasha Badenov in kindergarten and like Moon Unit Zappa by 5th grade.)
Anyways, this seems to be a major pattern among languages in major US cities. Most likely because South Asians are so linguistically diverse--even if you have a large South Asian population overall, none of the single linguistic groups dominates. For example, there are a TON of Desis in the New York Area, even more than LA, and yet no Indian languages at all (although Bengali only recently got taken off the list).
What's sad about it? There are plenty of other quizzes about the most-spoken languages in various countries. I don't understand your objection. Interesting quiz imo.
Name ONE city NOT in US that is featured in this kind of quiz (language quiz). Most of the COUNTRY do not get to be featured in the most-spoken-language, so why do cities in US get to be featured? Is it because US is better or the creator is American so they get to feature a bunch of quizzes about US???
Weird hangup, dude. Nobody's making you take the quiz, but I (as well as a bunch of other people, I'd guess, seeing as this quiz has over 38,000 takes at the time of writing with a 4.5 star rating) found it interesting.
No, it is inaccurate to assume that because bilinguals are growing larger, that eventually English will just disappear. Remember that many of these people in LA have English as a second language.
Why the Exclusion?
pre-latino American immigration
For non-Californians though I see how it could be more difficult, but if you've ever been here it's definitely not a crap-shoot :p
Anyway nice quizz
Is Glendale in the area or something
French: 0.39
Cambodian: 0.30
German: 0.27
Hindi: 0.27
Hebrew: 0.22
Shout-out to the 20 people in the Los Angeles whose primary language is Apache.
Anyways, this seems to be a major pattern among languages in major US cities. Most likely because South Asians are so linguistically diverse--even if you have a large South Asian population overall, none of the single linguistic groups dominates. For example, there are a TON of Desis in the New York Area, even more than LA, and yet no Indian languages at all (although Bengali only recently got taken off the list).
I didn't think Los Santos would help but okay
Arabic is a language
Edit: WAIT HANG ON A MINUTE
(i searched it up and it said that 1.5% of The LA population speak polish, this quiz doesn't reveal this fact)
I would've gotten Armenian if I knew that.
I am Armenian