What Languages do People Speak in United States?

Primary Languages

English

308,900,000 speakers

Major Dialects:

Standard
Language
Speakers
Spanish58,200,000
French1,271,300
German1,203,800
Hawai’i Pidgin1,000,000
Armenian238,000
Navajo167,000
Yiddish156,000
Adamawa Fulfulde30,500
Afrikaans23,000
Amharic195,000
Arabic924,000
Assamese1,310
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic80,000
Belarusian1,810
Belize Kriol English40,000
Bengali258,000
Bukharic50,000
Bulgarian57,800
Burmese62,600
Catalan2,330
Cebuano15,700
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic80,000
Chuukese8,790
Copala Triqui5,000
Croatian53,000
Danish28,300
Dutch142,000
Eastern Punjabi254,000
Efik5,260
Fijian5,760
Finnish25,800
Garifuna65,000
Gheg Albanian66,900
Greek305,000
Gujarati373,000
Haitian Creole453,000
Hakka Chinese3,800
Halh Mongolian10,200
Hebrew213,000
Hindi643,000
Hmong Daw185,000
Hmong Njua100,000
Hungarian86,400
Icelandic4,870
Ilocano85,800
Inakeanon23,600
Indonesian67,400
Iranian Persian391,000
Irish20,600
Italian709,000
Iu Mien19,000
Jamaican Creole English22,000
Japanese449,000
Kabardian3,500
Kabuverdianu91,000
Kannada48,600
Kashmiri1,780
Kazakh1,480
Khmer212,000
Korean1,120,000
Kosraean1,170
Krio6,900
Kwakiutl180
Lahu Shi1,200
Lao153,000
Lithuanian39,800
Macedonian22,900
Malay14,600
Malayalam146,000
Mandarin Chinese1,370,000
Marathi73,600
Marshallese18,500
Min Dong Chinese4,080
Min Nan Chinese219,000
Nepali94,200
Northern Kurdish17,000
Northern Pashto22,800
Norwegian39,400
Odia5,390
Palauan4,140
Pampangan5,620
Parsi75,000
Pohnpeian3,530
Polish580,000
Portuguese693,000
Romanian155,000
Russian879,000
Samoan64,100
Scottish Gaelic1,640
Serbian70,300
Shelta7,000
Sindhi8,970
Sinhala26,700
Slovak27,900
Slovene6,370
Soninke5,000
South Azerbaijani2,090
Standard Estonian6,040
Standard Latvian16,000
Swahili88,700
Swedish55,700
Tai Dam3,000
Tamil191,000
Tatar7,000
Telugu248,000
Thai153,000
Tibetan16,700
Tongan31,400
Tosk Albanian66,900
Turkish117,000
Turoyo5,000
Ukrainian152,000
Urdu398,000
Uyghur8,900
Vietnamese1,400,000
Vlaams2,000
Welsh2,240
Western Highland Purepecha45,000
Wu Chinese7,510
Yucatec Maya25,000
Yue Chinese1,290,000