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Most-Spoken Languages of the United States

Try to guess the languages with the most native speakers in the United States.
Source: U.S. Census, 2024 data
Languages spoken at home. Sign language is not counted.
Languages are grouped together or separated based on Census data, and may be inaccurate
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First submittedJuly 12, 2012
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Language
248 m
English
44.9 m
Spanish
3.73 m
Chinese
1.92 m
Tagalog
1.60 m
Vietnamese
1.48 m
Arabic
1.28 m
French
1.15 m
Korean
1.10 m
Portuguese
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Language
1.06 m
Hindi
1.04 m
French Creole
(Haitian)
1.02 m
Russian
0.874 m
German
0.773 m
Yoruba / Igbo
0.650 m
Yiddish /
Pennsylvania Dutch
0.639 m
Amharic / Somali
0.606 m
Telugu
0.570 m
Persian
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Language
0.561 m
Urdu
0.533 m
Ukrainian
0.509 m
Polish
0.508 m
Nepali / Marathi
0.507 m
Italian
0.502 m
Samoan / Hawaiian
0.494 m
Bengali
0.492 m
Gujarati
0.472 m
Japanese
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111 Recent Comments
Tramp
+54
Level 79
Jul 1, 2019
I understand some of the other groupings, but why on earth is Marathi grouped with Nepali? They may as well have grouped German and French together.
Quizmaster
+52
Level ∞
Jul 1, 2019
I don't know. Why did they group Yiddish with Pennsylvania Dutch? It doesn't make sense and I wish they hadn't done it.
communisteggplant
+20
Level 74
Jul 1, 2019
I take it you don't have the Hasidic Amish in your part of the US?
Tramp
+5
Level 79
Jul 1, 2019
That one seemed bizarre to me too, but I didn't know enough about either language to confidently call it out. Weird choices.
Quizmaster
+16
Level ∞
Jul 3, 2019
Throw all the old-timey religious people together I guess?
mschiesser
+10
Level 95
Feb 21, 2020
Yiddish and Penn Dutch (Deutsch) are both variants (i won't call them dialects for fear of angering someone) of German. I've heard that some folks that know one are able to understand the other, some don't.
GollossalKitty
+7
Level 45
Apr 20, 2025
they are Germanic languages but they have very different makeups outside of german
Elan
+2
Level 66
Nov 17, 2025
English is a Germanic language. Should we combine English with German, Dutch, and Yiddish?
Kahikatea
+24
Level 74
Jun 3, 2021
It's also weird how they grouped Hawaiian and Samoan together. Hawaiian is an East Polynesian language and Samoan is a West Polynesian language
Soryaz
+1
Level 37
Aug 11, 2022
If you separated them like that, the numbers would be low. They probably come from the same family anyway.
sootyboi
+18
Level 57
Sep 30, 2025
Same language family sure, but Portuguese and Spanish are probably more closely related. Hawaiian is quite distinct as a Polynesian language.
AntiMatter8192
+7
Level 77
Oct 22, 2025
We should combine them with Tagalog, it comes from the same family as well
Gwaur
+4
Level 48
Jul 2, 2019
Others have commented this already, but I'm joining in: Why no sign language? Do you think it's not a language?
Quizmaster
+29
Level ∞
Jul 3, 2019
Yo dawg. We get the data from the Census Bureau. What I think has nothing to do with it.
IsleAuHaulte
+9
Level 92
Aug 21, 2019
Arf.
Jiaozira
+18
Level 72
Jul 4, 2019
Interesting. I'm surprised Punjabi isn't here, in Canada Punjabi is the most spoken language from the Subcontinent by far!
richiesyxx
+1
Level 74
Feb 23, 2026
Probably because Pakistan, India and Canada are all members of the Commonwealth. I’m sure Mexico has very different numbers too.
PRALKAPL
+1
Level 20
Aug 18, 2019
xd more people speak igbo than polish
GoatUnicorn
+1
Level 58
Aug 18, 2019
Polynesian for Samoan/Hawaiian?
Zefyrinus
+3
Level 74
Aug 18, 2019
*sigh* I didn't try Hawaiian simply because I was thinking there's no way there are more than 300 000 speakers.
TheSaxyMan
+4
Level 55
Aug 18, 2019
How in the world did I get Amharic, but forget Russian and Italian...
CapitalAce
+22
Level 57
Aug 18, 2019
Ridiculous. Hindi and Urdu are counted separately, French and Haitian creole are counted separately, but Igbo and Yoruba are counted together? Igbo and Yoruba are definitely separate languages, not dialects of each other.
rockymountaineer
+18
Level 58
Aug 18, 2019
Marathi and Nepali are completely different languages and should not be grouped together.
YashShelar
+4
Level 50
Apr 15, 2020
I agree. The only similarity is that they are both derived from Sanskrit.
undeadwarrior
+1
Level 66
Aug 19, 2019
Could you do one for Australia, if you have the data? The same languages are likely to be on there, but in a completely different order - the difference would be quite extraordinary.
CrazeddRabbi
+1
Level 44
Aug 19, 2019
Pretty sure Pennsylvania Dutch is a group of people, while Yiddish is a language (typically not spoked by Pennsylvanian Dutch unless their Jewish)
MungoJerry
+4
Level 61
Apr 2, 2020
both languages are German-derived
RobNobody
+2
Level 80
Oct 21, 2025
Yiddish originated in the 9th century. By that standard you might as well say that English is also "German-derived."
Alexquiz17
+2
Level 94
Oct 21, 2025
It is though, part of the West Germanic language family
inari28
+4
Level 66
Nov 5, 2025
Germanic is not the same thing as German-derived.
richiesyxx
+1
Level 74
Feb 23, 2026
Better still: never spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, because the Pennsylvania Dutch are a Christian Sect who are, by definition, not Jewish.
ppaaccoojrf
+12
Level 42
Aug 22, 2019
American census groupings make no sense to me.
Yetushelah
+1
Level 33
Jan 14, 2020
You should add Hebrew, there's about 500k Israelis living in the US.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 79
Jan 14, 2020
The last census only counted about 1/5 that number.
FadKrashmor
+11
Level 70
Jan 26, 2020
Weird that the subcontinental Indian languages are listed separately (mostly) whereas all the Chinese languages are lumped into one! I can only guess this comes from the fact Chinese languages look the same when written down (well, bearing in mind the modern simplification).
thread
+3
Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
Must be because India doesn't claim that everything is one language, also North Indian and South Indian languages, both of which have multiple major languages, are completely unrelated linguistically, so it wouldn't make sense; even China doesn't claim that minority languages unrelated to Chinese (Sinitic) languages are dialects.
Djilas
+2
Level 86
Oct 21, 2025
It's just the stupid census grouping. Amharic is Semitic like Arabic, while Somali is Cushitic ...
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Apr 15, 2020
Got all but Samoa/Hawaiian and Amharic/Somali!
callofduty45
+4
Level 57
Apr 15, 2020
serbo-croatian is at about 260k, were getting up there!
UltraEl1te
+2
Level 37
Aug 25, 2020
My god, Did i just forget arabic............
Thomas1VL
+2
Level 67
Sep 5, 2020
I thought it was Nepalese instead of Nepali...
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Oct 13, 2020
Really proud of getting Nepali, Gujarati, Yoruba and Telugu.
Asterlan
+1
Level 57
Oct 13, 2020
Could you accept Nepalese for Nepali?
HydratedMite
+11
Level 68
Oct 5, 2023
Could you accept Englese for English?
svelte
+1
Level 50
Nov 11, 2020
On literally every single quiz Telugu is on, I always end up spelling it Tegulu. Bruhhhh.
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
Mar 14, 2023
sad....
Kahaku
+1
Level 51
Dec 30, 2020
wow, i'm surprised the only native language is Samoan/Hawaiian, I thought Navajo would've made the list.
PenguinTorpedo
+8
Level 49
Dec 30, 2020
No native american languages?? Thats depressing
DukeOfLorraine
+2
Level 66
Jan 7, 2023
Grand total there may be around 400k Native Americans in the USA, so even if all native languages were grouped in a single group (I doubt it's the case) and all spoke their ancestral language at home, they would still not make the list.
Isssa
+2
Level 55
Nov 16, 2025
That's sad
jkabq
+1
Level 67
Nov 17, 2025
why?
LuigiDood227
+2
Level 71
Jan 29, 2021
HOW IS JAPANESE SO LOW?!
EvanAviator
+1
Level 61
Jan 7, 2023
almost nobody outside of japan learns Japanese, and japan doesn't have much immigrants to the usa
Hayst
+2
Level 60
Mar 8, 2021
Samoan and Hawaiian are different languages though>?
chailattee
+7
Level 67
Apr 30, 2021
Well, they also group Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch,Yoruba and Igbo, and Amharic with Somali. It doesn't make sense, but for some reason they did it.
NiChPa
+2
Level 44
Nov 23, 2024
and marathi and nepali. at that point gujarati and hindi wshould be grouped as well, so it makes no sense
Damangio
+10
Level 64
Mar 23, 2021
I need to have some strong words with the Census Bureau about what languages they combine.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 78
Jun 1, 2021
I did not expect urdu to be above japanese and persian
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 78
Jun 1, 2021
Got Yoruba/Igbo
perfectbalance
+1
Level 62
Jun 3, 2021
How did I get Yoruba but miss Russian
pascalsiakam43
+4
Level 35
Jun 3, 2021
There is no language called Chinese is it mandarin or Cantonese
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Oct 21, 2025
Except the Chinese don't call it mandarin, they call it Chinese when speaking English.
Jers13720
+1
Level 22
Jun 10, 2021
Wait why Yoruba and Tagalog is viral in the US
Hawke
+1
Level 85
Jun 11, 2021
Tagalog is pretty common in the U.S. because we have a lot of Filipinos' living here
Yeoryios
+2
Level 71
Oct 25, 2021
Accept Pennsylvanian Dutch?
IceCold
+7
Level 60
Jan 23, 2022
Nepali and Marathi being grouped together is a very strange decision
SHANGALANG
+1
Level 57
Oct 21, 2025
exactly, i was confused for a second. didn't think Nepali would be there but tried Marathi and they were grouped together lol. They don't even sound similar, both are completely different.
christanhan
+2
Level 21
Apr 13, 2022
There are over 500k Deaf that use ASL as their primary language to communicate. I'm surprised this didn't make the list.
Cordelia75
+4
Level 55
Jun 4, 2022
Do you think it could be because the instructions say sign language is not included?
tongie17
+3
Level 34
Jun 9, 2022
Why is canadian not on here????!!!!
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Nov 7, 2022
After that incident with the Baldwin family we stopped teaching it at public schools.
Amit1274
+5
Level 30
Aug 26, 2022
dear jess Marathi and Nepali are nowhere related to each other I am a Marathi speaking person
kennyyyanne
+1
Level 25
Nov 7, 2022
I wish they would have added aave and asl. aave is extremely common and different than english. asl is also often excluded from languages because it isnt a spoken language, but is still extremely valid and used through the country /:
Jango
+2
Level 63
Nov 21, 2022
Lumping Chinese as one language then splitting French from French Creole is just silly. And lazy. And before you ask, yes, I saw the disclaimer. All it means is that you've found the stats somewhere and made them into a rubbish quiz!
RobNobody
+4
Level 80
Oct 21, 2025
"Somewhere" = US Census Bureau. If you've got a better, more accurately sorted source, please share it.
DrakiGuy
+5
Level 60
Jan 7, 2023
Why would Somali and Amharic be classified as interchangeable? They don't even belong to the same language family! Yet Hindi and Urdu (which is just Persianite Hindi) are different
AALLEEXX
+6
Level 44
Jan 7, 2023
It's sad that no Native languages are on the list
rutu14
+6
Level 45
Jan 7, 2023
Hi Marathi speaker here. Marathi and Nepali are very far apart. They cannot be considered the same language.
EvanAviator
+3
Level 61
Jan 7, 2023
tell that to the United States Census Bureau
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Apr 15, 2023
Yeah agreed, they are nowhere near similar. Marathi isn't even the most similar Indian language to Nepali. It's absurd to group them together.
richiesyxx
+1
Level 74
Feb 23, 2026
Not surprising considering that Nepal is about 2.5-3 hours flight time from Maharashtra state.
DukeOfLorraine
+2
Level 66
Jan 7, 2023
Interesting, french would shoot up to 4th place if counted together with french creole.

But there are some wide varieties of creole. Louisiana creole sounds almost exactly like french but writes nothing alike, it looks transcribed with english rules. Haitian creole is further away from french.

DaveH
+1
Level 47
Jan 8, 2023
Sorry, but I refuse to believe that nearly half of quiz takers knew Urdu.
sumguy
+7
Level 87
Jan 8, 2023
Why not?
abracadabrant
+16
Level 54
Jan 9, 2023
we're all nerds on this site
Djilas
+6
Level 86
Oct 21, 2025
It's the 10th most spoken language in the world ...
richiesyxx
+1
Level 74
Feb 23, 2026
Not only that, my (English) mother spoke Urdu. It’s reasonably well known in the UK, although, tbf, my mother was very much an anomaly as a white, English woman who could actually speak it. It did make visits to certain Asian-run shops very interesting…
abracadabrant
+1
Level 54
Jan 9, 2023
im surprised there are that many yiddish speakers in the US
babie90s
+2
Level 57
Oct 22, 2025
im surprised there arent that many hebrew speakers
AndyTownsend7
+3
Level 45
Jan 9, 2023
American Sign Language (ASL)?
ballabrand
+1
Level 52
Mar 1, 2023
Yeah I'd like to see some consistency between these language quizzes, some include it and others dont.
RoboJ9
+2
Level 62
Dec 29, 2024
The quiz is about the most spoken languages. I don't think anyone "speaks" sign language.
ddddan
+7
Level 85
May 22, 2023
I thought it interesting that almost all the main Indian languages are here except Tamil. As a Canadian that's surprising.
JesseFromThe6
+5
Level 70
Jan 20, 2024
No Punjabi either.
Dollyfroggy
+4
Level 63
Oct 13, 2023
Why are Igbo / Yoruba grouped (and not Hausa too)? They are only related by their country...
Dollyfroggy
+3
Level 63
Feb 25, 2024
Never mind. The caveat answers my question. Still a strange choice by the census nonetheless.
Ampersandwich
+1
Level 60
Jul 16, 2024
Knew a bunch of these cus I'm an Indian American myself! From West Bengal, so one of the ~400k Bengalis here!
TheLonelyAlula
+5
Level 57
Aug 4, 2024
Lots of strange choices for languages being grouped together, but I guess it can't be helped according to the source. Still nonsense that completely different languages like Amharic and Somali are grouped together but Urdu and Hindi which are literally the same language are not.
Djilas
+4
Level 86
Sep 12, 2024
Why are Russian&Polish not combined? Why are Semitic languages like Amharic and Arabic not combined (Somali is more distant)?

And is the census inaccesible outside US or is it down?

mansto
+1
Level 68
Nov 17, 2025
Russian and Polish are not combined probably because these are two separate languages with separate alphabets and grammar.
AR08
+1
Level 65
Nov 17, 2025
one could say the exact same thing, on a bigger scale, for amharic and somali
eurotec
+3
Level 56
May 20, 2025
What? I thought a lot more languages would be here. Especially Turkish, Hebrew, or Navajo if we're including Native American languages. Anyways, nice quiz I guess.
SHANGALANG
+9
Level 57
Oct 21, 2025
what is even Nepali / Marathi?? They are completely different languages, they don't even sound similar
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Oct 21, 2025
Totally with you. But this is the data the Census presents so there's nothing we can do.
KrishPatel
+1
Level 70
Oct 21, 2025
Clown quiz been
LAlphy
+4
Level 66
Oct 28, 2025
What idiot at the Census Bureau decided Amharic and Somali were the same language? They're in completely different branches of Afro-Asiatic, further apart than Russian is from Old Prussian.
JustAZoomer
+2
Level 49
Nov 16, 2025
These groupings make absolutely no sense. Yoruba and Igbo are together, so are Marathi and Nepali, but for SOME reason Urdu and Hindi are separate entries. What??
DorlelFavulan
+1
Level 46
Nov 17, 2025
I'd expect a couple Nativa American languages would be here. Navajo has 162,000–170,000 speakers.
jkabq
+1
Level 67
Nov 17, 2025
that's about a third of the lowest one on the list. can't have every language in the world in the short version.
seechdog
+2
Level 69
Nov 17, 2025
What about Jive? June Cleaver spoke it.
Pingoinhyrule
+1
Level 62
Nov 17, 2025
I tryed hatian creole :(
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