
What’s the third most common language in your state?
Fascinating.
And here’s the Canadian version that shows the top 3 languages spoken aside from English or French.
The most common are Chinese, German, and Arabic.
Thanks to Alicia for finding it!
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GirlinaTrenchcoat
@MelD: I wish France would go back to the septante/octante/nonante way of counting hehe. It was so hard to learn French when it got to numbers 70 and up! 🙂
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GirlinaTrenccoat
I was surprised that Tagalog was the most spoken aside from Spanish ad English in California, I honestly thought it would be Chinese, so it was a pleasant surprise. We definitely have a huge Filipino population in the Bay Area, so if you are ever down in this area you would find a ton of Filipino and Filipino-inspired cuisine!
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Tania
I’m not surprised at all for Hawaii (Tagalog). We have a huge Filipino community on all islands, past generations as well as recent immigrants. The whole “other than English and Spanish” is n/a for us. Spanish isn’t widely spoken here. I’d like to see where Japanese falls for Hawaii. There are also immersion schools for the Hawaiian language. Interesting.
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The Asian Pear
Wow. I had no idea that Tagalog was so highly spoken in the US and in Canada. (It’s even in the territories!)
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Alicia
Turns out it has been done for Canada (but I can’t reply to your comment)! Oh google, how I love thee…
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/map-canada-s-most-common-non-official-languages
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NZ Muse
Some fascinating diversity there! The other day I heard/read that more people in the US have German heritage than Irish and this map reinforces that.
Definitely Chinese (presumably Mandarin) in Auckland. These days if I go into a big department store and get approached by an Asian sales rep they always greet me in Chinese. A little awkward.
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Shannon @ Financially Blonde
I love this map! I live in New York and since there are so many people from other countries here, I was curious about what the second most common language would be. I used to live in Atlanta, though, and I am not surprised to see Korean. There are a number of areas outside the city that have signs and advertisements completely in Korean.
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Alicia @ Financial Diffraction
So cool. I would not have expected so much German… though it does make sense when I think about it.
I admit I had to look up Tagalog, but I definitely echo what Liquid said about another map like this for Canada. Wouldn’t be too difficult to do either considering it’s only 13 provinces/territories.
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Liquid
Cool map. Now I know where South Dakota got its name from. We need a map like this for Canada 🙂
“Most Commonly Spoken Language in Your Province Other Than English or French”
MelD
Fascinating – I hadn’t expected those results, to be honest!
And another laugh – we have four official languages alone in Switzerland: German, French, Italian and Romansch… 😉
Although I should point out that there is a big difference between written High/official German and spoken Swiss-German (“real” Germans can be spotted a mile away LOL!), much more so than with the French, which is more of a series of accents and a few different words (we say “septante” and “nonante” for 70 and 90, for instance, here, rather than soixante-dix or quatre-vingt-dix) and the same with Italian, where the mountain valley dialects are hard or next-to-impossible for an Italian to understand. Romansch is a series of mountain dialects in the eastern region that was brought together in an artificial “official” Romansch in the 1970s, but basically has 5 different versions…
After that there is a lot of English, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian and so on, now also with more eastern European languages (Russian, Polish, Bulgarian). We also have quite a lot of Philippine population.