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Main Languages of the USA
Name the languages with the most speakers in the United States.
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samme
Great quiz! :) 18/22! yessiiir
Jul 26, 2012 delete reply
bebn123
You'd think that gibberish and l33t would make it on here.
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
mal
Showing my ignorance here but where is Tagalog from?
Good quiz but didn't do that well!
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
jadekelly
It's from the Philippines
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
PatTag2659
It's the language of the Philippines and is also known as Filipino.
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
kalbahamut
It's a language widely spoken in Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines. It was declared one of the official languages of the country by the Spanish, and still is along with English. It is also widely spoken and understood in other parts of the country.
Jan 18, 2013 delete reply
CDobs85
It is also spoken in Guam, which is a U.S. territory, which probably bumps the number up a bit.
Jun 19, 2013 delete reply
mikeb
Is sign language correctly identified as "spoken" (as per quiz topic)?
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
Sonko
I agree with ''mikeb'', you ask us to name the most common languages spoken in the United States. Sign language is known to be silent, so not spoken at all.
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
Quizmaster
Haha. I didn't catch that one. Added a caveat.
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
jess1769
It is not unusual for those who use sign languages to be referred to as speakers of the language. If you do a little Googling, you will see that speakers are often referred to as such.
Aug 28, 2012 delete reply
LacsiraxAriscal
Parsi for Persian?
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
geowhizz
it lets you type Farsi...
Aug 24, 2012 delete reply
jess1769
Parsi is a certain group of people. Farsi is a language. So Farsi is accepted and Parsi is not. Sorry.
Aug 28, 2012 delete reply
bluesdjben
I think Iranians can use either Parsi or Farsi when describing the language. Someone I know from Iran used Parsi to describe the language, but I can't remember why she said she used Parsi instead of Farsi.
Dec 11, 2012 delete
noodles
I don't think "Chinese" should be acceptable. Cantonese and Mandarin are two separate languages.
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
Quizmaster
In some ways they are, in some ways they aren't. But without conducting my own census, I couldn't break up that data anyway.
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
jess1769
As a linguist, I agree that they are separate languages, as they are not mutually intelligible. However, as mentioned in the caveats, this quiz is based on U.S. Census statistics, in which the term Chinese includes both.
Aug 28, 2012 delete reply
womph2005
Can you name the most common languages SPOKENin the United States by speakers older than 5?
This would not be the case for American Sign Language... this is BOOTY!
Aug 23, 2012 delete reply
arirose94
It says it includes visual languages...
Aug 24, 2012 delete reply
geowhizz
what's gujarati? and why would there be so many speakers of armenian?
Aug 24, 2012 delete reply
Frayselijk
Maybe because of the Armenian genocide?
Aug 26, 2012 delete reply
indiavoyager
Gujarati is from state of Gujarat in India, and is one of 28 official languages of India. Gujarati community (common surname - Patel) are mostly the trader community in the US
Aug 29, 2012 delete reply
Bumblebrook
The only one I didn't get was Arabic. :(
Aug 29, 2012 delete reply
Ozchris
Great quiz! I was a little surprised not to see Hebrew in there.
Dec 27, 2012 delete reply
kalbahamut
most Jews outside of Israel do not speak Hebrew, and Israelis don't often immigrate to the United States, though many Jews have.
Jan 18, 2013 delete reply
plattitude
Hebrew would have been one of the next if the list had continued, 2009 estimates had about 220,000 Hebrew speakers in the US
Feb 27, 2013 delete
Nytebreid
Not being too familiar with either - how much of a difference is there between "French" and "French Creole"?
Jan 20, 2013 delete reply
pg245091
French is standard French. Creole (official spelling: Kreyol) is a distinct Afro-French language spoken by descendants of slaves in the Caribbean. I'd suspect the US speakers are Haitian-American.
Speaking of: there aren't speakers of Jamaican Patois (patwa) in the list? What about the Gullah dialect? And Yiddish?
Apr 23, 2013 delete reply
kalbahamut
It's amazing that nearly 1/3 people in the United States doesn't speak English. I assume this only includes "native speakers?"
Jan 20, 2013 delete reply
pantera69
chinese isnt a language, its mandarin or cantonese. kind of ignorant people still think that actually
Feb 4, 2013 delete reply
Skaggerack
This is stupid; there are 3 languages from India and yet just one Chinese; why??
Feb 21, 2013 delete reply
plattitude
Because the Chinese languages CAN be considered as dialectual variants of the same tongue. As a Cantonese speaker, I find it difficult, but not impossible, to understand a Mandarin conversation, but as the Mandarin character set is the standard for reading across all dialects, all dialects can read the same piece of paper, though they'll sound different if read aloud.
Feb 27, 2013 delete reply
chrisdoyle
i typed hindu, instead of hindi
Apr 30, 2013 delete reply
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