Table 1.XI |
Languages Spoken, New York City |
| |
| Speaks only English |
3,920,751 | |
| Spanish or Spanish Creole |
1,832,448 | |
| Indo-European languages: |
|
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
|
105,821 | |
|
French Creole
|
89,039 | |
|
Italian
|
139,536 | |
|
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
|
18,369 | |
|
German
|
33,066 | |
|
Yiddish
|
82,732 | |
|
Other West Germanic Languages
|
4,825 | |
|
Scandinavian Languages
|
5,708 | |
|
Greek
|
58,343 | |
|
Russian
|
194,602 | |
|
Polish
|
60,604 | |
|
Serbo-Croatian
|
19,895 | |
|
Other Slavic Languages
|
16,631 | |
|
Armenian
|
4,922 | |
|
Persian
|
12,397 | |
|
Gujarathi
|
9,377 | |
|
Hindi
|
25,015 | |
|
Urdu
|
38,489 | |
|
Other Indic Languages
|
79,154 | |
|
Other Indo-European Languages
|
45,257 | |
| Asian and Pacific Island languages: |
|
Chinese
|
323,529 | |
|
Japanese
|
20,502 | |
|
Korean
|
77,120 | |
|
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
|
1,976 | |
|
Miao, Hmong
|
4 | |
|
Thai
|
4,250 | |
|
Laotian
|
157 | |
|
Vietnamese
|
10,085 | |
|
Other Asian Languages
|
26,912 | |
|
Tagalog
|
45,767 | |
|
Other Pacific Island Languages
|
4,445 | |
| Other languages: |
|
Navajo
|
18 | |
|
Other Native North American languages
|
1,081 | |
|
Hungarian
|
11,308 | |
|
Arabic
|
48,981 | |
|
Hebrew
|
50,263 | |
|
African languages
|
44,915 | |
| Other and unspecified languages |
4,465 |
|
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| Total Population 5 Years and Over : 7,475,566 |
| Total Number of Languages spoken in New York City : 40 |
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| Source: |
| U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census Special Tabulation |
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