Table 1.XII |
Languages Spoken at Home and Ancestry |
New York City |
2000 ¹ |
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Speaks only English |
3,920,751 |
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Spanish or Spanish Creole
|
1,832,448 |
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Indo-European languages: |
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French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
|
105,821 |
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French Creole |
89,039 |
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Italian |
139,536 |
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Portuguese or Portuguese
Creole |
18,369 |
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German |
33,066 |
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Yiddish |
82,732 |
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Other West Germanic Languages
|
4,825 |
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Scandinavian Languages |
5,708 |
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Greek |
58,343 |
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Russian |
194,602 |
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Polish |
60,604 |
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Serbo-Croatian |
19,895 |
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Other Slavic Languages |
16,631 |
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Armenian |
4,922 |
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Persian |
12,397 |
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Gujarathi |
9,377 |
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Hindi |
25,015 |
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Urdu |
38,489 |
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Other Indic Languages |
79,154 |
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Other Indo-European Languages
|
45,257 |
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Asian and Pacific
Island languages: |
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Chinese |
323,529 |
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Japanese |
20,502 |
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Korean |
77,120 |
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Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
1,976 |
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Miao, Hmong |
4 |
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Thai |
4,250 |
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Laotian |
157 |
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Vietnamese |
10,085 |
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Other Asian Languages |
26,912 |
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Tagalog |
45,767 |
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Other Pacific Island Languages
|
4,445 |
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Other languages: |
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Navajo |
18 |
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Other Native North American
languages |
1,081 |
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Hungarian |
11,308 |
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Arabic |
48,981 |
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Hebrew |
50,263 |
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African languages |
44,915 |
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Other and unspecified
languages |
4,465 |
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¹Latest available |
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Source: |
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U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census
Special Tabulation |
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