What Languages do People Speak in United States?

Primary Languages

Name
English
Pop. Speaking
308,900,000
Dialects
Standard

Other Languages

Spanish
58,200,000
French
1,271,300
German
1,203,800
Hawai’i Pidgin
1,000,000
Armenian
238,000
Navajo
167,000
Yiddish
156,000
Adamawa Fulfulde
30,500
Afrikaans
23,000
Amharic
195,000
Arabic
924,000
Assamese
1,310
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
80,000
Belarusian
1,810
Belize Kriol English
40,000
Bengali
258,000
Bukharic
50,000
Bulgarian
57,800
Burmese
62,600
Catalan
2,330
Cebuano
15,700
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
80,000
Chuukese
8,790
Copala Triqui
5,000
Croatian
53,000
Danish
28,300
Dutch
142,000
Eastern Punjabi
254,000
Efik
5,260
Fijian
5,760
Finnish
25,800
Garifuna
65,000
Gheg Albanian
66,900
Greek
305,000
Gujarati
373,000
Haitian Creole
453,000
Hakka Chinese
3,800
Halh Mongolian
10,200
Hebrew
213,000
Hindi
643,000
Hmong Daw
185,000
Hmong Njua
100,000
Hungarian
86,400
Icelandic
4,870
Ilocano
85,800
Inakeanon
23,600
Indonesian
67,400
Iranian Persian
391,000
Irish
20,600
Italian
709,000
Iu Mien
19,000
Jamaican Creole English
22,000
Japanese
449,000
Kabardian
3,500
Kabuverdianu
91,000
Kannada
48,600
Kashmiri
1,780
Kazakh
1,480
Khmer
212,000
Korean
1,120,000
Kosraean
1,170
Krio
6,900
Kwakiutl
180
Lahu Shi
1,200
Lao
153,000
Lithuanian
39,800
Macedonian
22,900
Malay
14,600
Malayalam
146,000
Mandarin Chinese
1,370,000
Marathi
73,600
Marshallese
18,500
Min Dong Chinese
4,080
Min Nan Chinese
219,000
Nepali
94,200
Northern Kurdish
17,000
Northern Pashto
22,800
Norwegian
39,400
Odia
5,390
Palauan
4,140
Pampangan
5,620
Parsi
75,000
Pohnpeian
3,530
Polish
580,000
Portuguese
693,000
Romanian
155,000
Russian
879,000
Samoan
64,100
Scottish Gaelic
1,640
Serbian
70,300
Shelta
7,000
Sindhi
8,970
Sinhala
26,700
Slovak
27,900
Slovene
6,370
Soninke
5,000
South Azerbaijani
2,090
Standard Estonian
6,040
Standard Latvian
16,000
Swahili
88,700
Swedish
55,700
Tai Dam
3,000
Tamil
191,000
Tatar
7,000
Telugu
248,000
Thai
153,000
Tibetan
16,700
Tongan
31,400
Tosk Albanian
66,900
Turkish
117,000
Turoyo
5,000
Ukrainian
152,000
Urdu
398,000
Uyghur
8,900
Vietnamese
1,400,000
Vlaams
2,000
Welsh
2,240
Western Highland Purepecha
45,000
Wu Chinese
7,510
Yucatec Maya
25,000
Yue Chinese
1,290,000