Can you name the languages spoken by more than 100,000 people in the United States? by crazydiamond1to9

Number of speakers	Language
262,671
235,701
202,480
195,181
181,747
179,014
178,588
177,731
167,515
150,396
149,091
141,295
129,882
128,831
128,560
120,348
117,785
114,487
unknown, anywhere from 100,000 to 15,000,000

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Languages spoken in the United States Quiz

by crazydiamond1to9

Created Aug 19, 2010 in Language
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	loganite:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 04:25 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. Very interesting. The 7th language from the bottom is misspelled, it should read "Punjabi."

	crazydiamond1to9:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 04:35 GMT	2 points
	That's what I thought when I was doing this, but apparently both spellings are correct, and the US Census uses the one I used here. Both spellings work here though.

	steeltown:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 05:03 GMT	2 points
	Would you add "Ukrainian" as an accepted spelling?

	newenglander:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 05:05 GMT	5 points
	you should also accept gujarati and the aforementioned punjabi

	chriskotx:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 06:45 GMT	2 points
	I put "Tagalog" and got nothing...I put "filipino" and got Tagalog. I put Navaho and got nothing. Please fix Punjabi.

	crazydiamond1to9:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 06:54 GMT	4 points
	Ukrainian has been fixed, Navaho and Gujarati have been added as alternates. Tagalog and Punjabi both should work (just tested them again), and as the note says, all spellings are as used in 2000 Census (hence the odd spelling of Panjabi).

	sporclover:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 17:44 GMT	-4 points
	you should accept Punjab (without the i) as well. Punjabi is the adjective form.

	zoothorn:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 17:44 GMT	1 point
	Maybe accept American Sign Language as a bonus. Other than that, good quiz.

	thefeintinggoat:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 18:20 GMT	1 point
	Please add Lao for Laotian. Great idea for a quiz.

	janosferenzy:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 18:35 GMT	-3 points
	wow, the only one I got was english

	jaspa:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 19:29 GMT	2 points
	@sporclover: Punjab is the region where the Punjabi language originated. Similarly, we speak English, not England.

	Shaun871:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 20:12 GMT	-2 points
	I thought for sure ebonics would be on here.

	mungar:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 20:35 GMT	1 point
	Sign language should be on here. Not sure of the exact total, but it is likely over 1 million.

	Pit_trout:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 21:15 GMT	2 points
	Awesome quiz! Please accept Lao though, as @thefeintinggoat says; also it'd be nice to accept Serbian and Croatian for Serbo-Croatian. For American Sign Language, wiki says 500,000—2,000,000 signers, with 100,000—500,000 “primary users”, which I guess means people for whom it's their first language? So numbers-wise, it probably should be on here… although the title says “languages spoken in the US”, so I guess it makes sense to keep it as a bonus :-)

	adrian96:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT	-1 points
	Bloody foreigners.

	MikeN:	Oct 21st, 2010 at 04:11 GMT	2 points
	Which ocean?

	crazydiamond1to9:	Nov 5th, 2010 at 05:12 GMT	2 points
	Lao added. Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps we'll get an update with regard to these numbers soon with the 2010 Census.

	Pyrophorus:	Aug 19th, 2011 at 05:00 GMT	1 point
	Kind of surprised to not see Hawaiian, but interesting to see Navajo!

	crazydiamond1to9:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 22:12 GMT	1 point
	For the record, Hawaiian was (as of the 2000 Census) spoken by only 26,608 people. Still awaiting the release of this info for 2010.

	Holadude19507:	Dec 17th, 2011 at 19:17 GMT	1 point
	I typed Cherokee, and when it didn't appear, I assumed no other native American language would be there. Almost did the same with Hausa, assuming no other Nigerian language would be there.

	crazydiamond1to9:	Dec 21st, 2011 at 01:54 GMT	1 point
	For the record, Hausa is not a language that is tracked by the census. Chadic, the parent language, is, and had only 2,751 speakers in 2000. Also African Languages (not elsewhere classified) has 12,000 speakers. No idea which bucket they threw Hausa in with. Cherokee only had 16,000 speakers in 2000. Also for the record, this data was explored in 2000's Summary File 3 data. I cannot find any information on an SF3 file for 2010. SF2 will be getting a rolling release starting this month, but I doubt that will have this data. So we'll prolly be looking for late 2012 or early 2013 or an update.