NYCdata: Spoken Languages and Ancestry


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Table 2.I.J New York City (NYC) Spoken Languages and Ancestry Population 5 Years and Over
Languages Spoken at Home	2000	2010	2011¹
Speaks only English	3,920,751	3,910,650	3,925,617
Spanish or Spanish Creole	1,832,448	1,861,885	1,900,105
Indo-European languages:
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)	105,821	80,866	85,911
French Creole	89,039	98,693	114,986
Italian	139,536	98,037	81,546
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole	18,369	16,565	17,126
German	33,066	22,874	21,658
Yiddish	82,732	84,082	87,423
Other West Germanic Languages	4,825	4,214	4,510
Scandinavian Languages	5,708	4,239	6,602
Greek	58,343	47,570	46,326
Russian	194,602	185,097	195,108
Polish	60,604	56,732	63,681
Serbo-Croatian	19,895	18,566	17,922
Other Slavic Languages	16,631	15,209	14,946
Armenian	4,922	3,339	3,850
Persian	12,397	11,515	13,747
Gujarathi	9,377	10,083	9,605
Hindi	25,015	30,632	32,231
Urdu	38,489	42,773	42,818
Other Indic Languages	79,154	108,917	128,826
Other Indo-European Languages	45,257	45,579	48,180
Asian and Pacific Island languages:
Chinese	323,529	411,844	432,477
Japanese	20,502	23,070	19,067
Korean	77,120	79,407	85,379
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	1,976	2,548	3,150
Miao, Hmong	4	12	0
Thai	4,250	4,680	5,261
Laotian	157	325	425
Vietnamese	10,085	10,727	11,573
Other Asian Languages	26,912	37,497	35,354
Tagalog	45,767	51,155	47,338
Other Pacific Island Languages	4,445	7,135	6,874
Other languages:
Navajo	18	10	18
Other Native North American languages	1,081	1,297	1,660
Hungarian	11,308	7,999	8,616
Arabic	48,981	48,697	62,749
Hebrew	50,263	49,164	49,066
African languages	44,915	62,069	72,627
Other and unspecified languages	4,465	4,504	6,152
¹Latest estimates available
Source: U.S. Census Bureau - American Community Survey (Table B16001)

Table 2.I.J

New York City (NYC) Spoken Languages and Ancestry Population 5 Years and Over

New York City (NYC)
Spoken Languages and Ancestry
Population 5 Years and Over