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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 15:00:28 GMT
New census data shows more than one out of four Floridians speak a language other than English in their homes, up 2% from five years ago, with Spanish being the most common. The next most common language was French Creole. Census article with interactive map of the U.S.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 16:36:13 GMT
Maps like that fascinate me. I wasn't able to find anything similar for France, but I believe that Portuguese remains the 2nd mother tongue in France, just ahead of dialectical Arabic. While the addition of Tunisians + Algerians + Moroccans (1,050,000) is greater than the number of Portuguese in France (500,000), they are split among the dialectical Arabic speakers, Berber speakers and people more comfortable speaking French. In most Maghrebi homes of North Africa, people speak one of the languages mixed with a lot of French words, so if they immigrate to France, the percentage of French words rises higher depending on their environment.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 7, 2013 22:27:10 GMT
Interesting, though obviously I was thinking "Languages spoken in America" in a continental sense...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 23:02:26 GMT
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Post by rikita on Aug 10, 2013 14:22:33 GMT
yeah i was thinking all of the americas when i saw the title. but it is interesting.
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2013 14:24:53 GMT
Sorry about the confusion. I took the title directly from the U.S. Census Bureau article.
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Post by lola on Aug 10, 2013 15:05:15 GMT
htmb, thanks so much for the link. My college student daughter went door to door with the last census. That's an eye opening job.
My husband the ESL teacher says he loves the map. Here in French-founded St. Louis there are a lot more Vietnamese speakers than French. Bosnian is big here, though not included on the survey.
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