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America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

47 pointsby RyeCombinatortoday at 3:41 AM24 commentsview on HN

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sarabandetoday at 7:37 AM

It would be helpful to show n. speakers of those languages or at least grade based on % of remaining non-English, non-Spanish speakers.

My intuition is that German, for example, is much less active of a language in the US, where immigration peaked long ago, than Chinese, where immigration is active.

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niek_pastoday at 8:19 AM

What in the world is “other native” supposed to mean? Those languages don’t have names?

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autunitoday at 7:38 AM

that's a lot more German than I would have guessed

razorbeamztoday at 6:09 AM

Very surprised Navajo is so strong.

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guidedlighttoday at 7:34 AM

You know there are 34 countries in America other than the United States.

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xhevahirtoday at 6:59 AM

> Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese)

This is enough to discredit the whole infographic in my eyes. No matter what the CPC or anybody else may claim, these are distinct languages, and not dialects. Not only that, but in some of these places a lot of Chinese speak other regional Chinese languages, such as Fuzhounese, rather than Mandarin or Cantonese. (I remember a blog from twenty or so years ago by a NYC Chinatown native who mapped his building by language; something like a dozen Chinese languages were spoken by residents of that building's apartments.)

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