Languages Spoken, New York City

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Languages Spoken, New York City

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Table 1.XI
Languages Spoken, New York City
Languages Spoken at Home		Population (5 Years and Over)
Speaks only English		3,920,751
Spanish or Spanish Creole		1,832,448
Indo-European languages:
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)		105,821
French Creole		89,039
Italian		139,536
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole		18,369
German		33,066
Yiddish		82,732
Other West Germanic Languages		4,825
Scandinavian Languages		5,708
Greek		58,343
Russian		194,602
Polish		60,604
Serbo-Croatian		19,895
Other Slavic Languages		16,631
Armenian		4,922
Persian		12,397
Gujarathi		9,377
Hindi		25,015
Urdu		38,489
Other Indic Languages		79,154
Other Indo-European Languages		45,257
Asian and Pacific Island languages:
Chinese		323,529
Japanese		20,502
Korean		77,120
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian		1,976
Miao, Hmong		4
Thai		4,250
Laotian		157
Vietnamese		10,085
Other Asian Languages		26,912
Tagalog		45,767
Other Pacific Island Languages		4,445
Other languages:
Navajo		18
Other Native North American languages		1,081
Hungarian		11,308
Arabic		48,981
Hebrew		50,263
African languages		44,915
Other and unspecified languages		4,465

Total Population 5 Years and Over : 7,475,566
Total Number of Languages spoken in New York City : 40


Source:
U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census Special Tabulation

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