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Appendix B: Language Spoken at Home, Population Ages 5 and Over (Selected Study Sites, 2000)
| Language Spoken at Home | Dallas County | King County (Seattle) |
New York City | Wake County (Raleigh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total: | 2,005,507 | 1,595,304 | 7,282,611 | 567,387 |
| Speak only English | 1,320,871 | 1,278,113 | 3,881,506 | 489,264 |
| Spanish or Spanish Creole | 558,429 | 62,901 | 1,813,332 | 43,982 |
| French (incl. Patois, Cajun) | 771 | 7,118 | 84,557 | 5,484 |
| French Creole | 0 | 0 | 107,373 | 0 |
| Italian | 1,294 | 4,005 | 106,413 | 555 |
| Portuguese or Portuguese Creole | 3,962 | 1,971 | 16,659 | 2,286 |
| German | 4,383 | 10,652 | 26,122 | 627 |
| Yiddish | 0 | 0 | 49,827 | 0 |
| Other West Germanic languages | 3,238 | 2,218 | 6,955 | 515 |
| Scandinavian languages | 622 | 5,205 | 2,509 | 192 |
| Greek | 455 | 3,307 | 49,567 | 181 |
| Russian | 4,979 | 15,817 | 173,988 | 0 |
| Polish | 1,084 | 1,873 | 59,424 | 0 |
| Serbo-Croatian | 2,078 | 593 | 24,254 | 0 |
| Other Slavic languages | 376 | 11,655 | 13,531 | 210 |
| Armenian | 0 | 0 | 4,153 | 0 |
| Persian | 2,654 | 3,624 | 11,453 | 202 |
| Gujarathi | 1,117 | 419 | 5,261 | 1,091 |
| Hindi | 4,222 | 4,489 | 28,936 | 482 |
| Urdu | 4,574 | 4,813 | 34,554 | 0 |
| Other Indic languages | 3,594 | 2,572 | 84,073 | 2,438 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 983 | 1,910 | 43,050 | 0 |
| Chinese | 8,979 | 37,404 | 286,887 | 4,316 |
| Japanese | 1,590 | 12,017 | 19,117 | 230 |
| Korean | 9,938 | 10,946 | 96,176 | 2,919 |
| Mon-Khmer, Cambodian | 1,862 | 8,378 | 1,765 | 0 |
| Miao, Hmong | 0 | 1,648 | 0 | 0 |
| Thai | 1,164 | 3,961 | 4,293 | 578 |
| Laotian | 2,638 | 1,344 | 65 | 690 |
| Vietnamese | 29,054 | 38,277 | 20,127 | 2,315 |
| Other Asian languages | 7,512 | 2,698 | 31,435 | 875 |
| Tagalog | 3,795 | 25,393 | 39,985 | 2,382 |
| Other Pacific Island languages | 196 | 12,924 | 6,516 | 0 |
| Other Native North American languages | 0 | 706 | 563 | 0 |
| Hungarian | 616 | 3,895 | 13,543 | 341 |
| Arabic | 2,971 | 601 | 43,605 | 5,041 |
| Hebrew | 1,380 | 759 | 42,544 | 191 |
| African languages | 13,708 | 7,189 | 34,745 | 0 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 418 | 3,909 | 13,748 | 0 |
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NOTE: Data unavailable for Arlington County (VA) or Pettis County (MO) , due to small sample sizes. Source: U.S. Census Bureau. 2002. American FactFinder Census 2000 Supplementary Survey Summary Tables P034. Available at http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet. |
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