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[ponpo]

Full study with all states

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/07/07/tagalog-californias-most-commonly-spoken-foreign-language/

A whopping 2.1 percent of Californians speak Tagalog, making the language native to the Philippines the most common foreign dialogue spoken in the state after Spanish.

A new study from 24/7 Wall St. determined the most commonly spoken language in each state, using data from the United States Census Bureau's 2015 American Consumer Survey. The survey excluded Spanish, which is the most commonly spoken language after English in nearly every state.

The 832,024 Californians who speak Tagalog at home are actually speaking the second language of The Philippines as Filipino is the official language. Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population in The Philippines.

24/7's Most Commonly Spoken Foreign Languages for the 10 largest states by population:

• California — Tagalog
• Texas — Vietnamese
• Florida — French Creole
• New York — Chinese
• Illinois — Polish
• Pennsylvania — Chinese
• Ohio — German
• Georgia — Korean
• North Carolina — French
• Michigan — Arabic

edit: Everyone

Alabama - Vietnamese
Alaska - Aleut-Eskimo Languages
Arizona - Navajo
Arkansas - Chinese
California - Tagalog
Colorado - German
Connecticut - Polish
Delaware - Hindi
Florida - French Creole
Georgia - Korean
Hawaii - Ilocano
Idaho - Arabic
Illinois - Polish
Indiana - German
Iowa - German
Kansas - Vietnamese
Kentucky - German
Louisiana - French
Maine - French
Maryland - Chinese
Massachusetts - Portuguese
Michigan - Arabic
Minnesota - Hmong
Mississippi - Vietnamese
Missouri - German
Montana - German
Nebraska - Arabic
Nevada - Tagalog
New Hampshire - French
New Jersey - Chinese
New Mexico - Navajo
New York - Chinese
North Carolina - French
North Dakota - German
Ohio - German
Oklahoma - Vietnamese
Oregon - Vietnamese
Pennsylvania - Chinese
Rhode Island - Portuguese
South Carolina - German
South Dakota - Dakota
Tennessee - Arabic
Texas - Vietnamese
Utah - Portuguese
Vermont - French
Virginia - Vietnamese
Washington - Tagalog
West Virginia - German
Wisconsin - Hmong
Wyoming - German

 

[Pixels]

Tagalog?

 

[Escape Goat]

Tagalog? Now I want girlscout cookies.

 

[Dynomutt]

Tagalog?

Lumpia, Halo Halo, and Chicken Adobo are all you need to know. I'm not even Filipino but the food is A+. Shout out to my Haitians in FL Sak pase!

 

[g23]

Is there a huge foreign French population in North Carolina?

And wth is the article talking about saying Tagalog is the "second" official language of the Philippines. Filipino and Tagalog are the same thing..

 

[Bold One]

Staggering amount of German

 

[Cvie]

Is there a huge foreign French population in North Carolina?

And wth is the article talking about saying Tagalog is the "second" official language of the Philippines. Filipino and Tagalog are the same thing..

english is an official language there

 

[Alienfan]

Crazy the second most popular language in a lot of states is Tagalog, and I've never even heard of it. Is it pronounced tag a log?

 

[dakini]

Interesting survey, but I don't think it's accurate for my state. They have Arabic listed and while the Arabic speaking community has grown due to refugees from Sudan and Iraq being resettled in the state, the Vietnamese community is much larger.

 

[Xe4]

I was gonna call bullshit seeing no Spanish, but I see it was excluded.

As a resident of NM, Navajo is not surprisng, there's quite a large population in the western end of the state.

 

[soqquatto]

Crazy the second most popular language in a lot of states is Tagalog, and I've never even heard of it. Is it pronounced tag a log?

it's not 'crazy', it's just you not knowing a language name. millions of people know something and you don't. happens even to the best of us!

 

[danthefan]

The hell at all the German?

I know historically some states had huge numbers of Germans settle there, is this just a relic of that? People still speaking it generations on?

 

[CaviarMeths]

"Spoken language"
"Chinese"

No.

 

[1upsuper]

Some of you guys have never heard of Tagalog outside of girl scout cookies? Uhh

 

[soqquatto]

24/7’s Most Commonly Spoken Foreign Languages for the 10 largest states by population:

South Dakota - Dakota

sad and ironic

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Arabic popping up in some unexpected states.

 

[ponpo]

This Slate article is from 2014 but pretty similar and has some maps for those who hate words.

And I was interested in seeing which states would not be Spanish if Spanish was included.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Some of you guys have never heard of Tagalog outside of girl scout cookies? Uhh

To be fair, I live in an area with a fairly significant Filipino population and the only reason why I know the language is called Tagalog is because my friend's sister is married to a Filipino, so there's a personal connection there. People can be aware of a group of people without knowing what their language is called. I mean the article itself lists "Chinese" as a spoken language when it most likely should be Mandarin.

 

[ponpo]

"Spoken language"
"Chinese"

No.

From the slate article:

One of the most interesting data sets for aspiring mapmakers is the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Among other things, that survey includes a detailed look at the languages spoken in American homes. All the maps below are based on the responses to this survey. However, an ACS participant does not select his language from a list of predeteremined options; he fills in a blank box with his self-selected answer. For instance, some people answered the ACS with “Chinese,” while others gave specific dialects such as “Mandarin” or “Cantonese”. These were all treated as different languages in the ACS data and when constructing these maps. (See the raw data here.) New York is marked “Chinese” because more people responded with “Chinese” than any other language other than English or Spanish. If all Chinese languages (or languages under the umbrella of a larger language family) had been grouped together, the answers for many states would change.

 

[DarthMasta]

Surprised at Portuguese in Utah. Maybe Brazilians?

Also Arizona - Navajo

How is Navajo foreign?

 

[CaviarMeths]

From the slate article:

Ah I see, that makes sense.

 

[andythinkpad]

Ah I see, that makes sense.

A lot of mandarin speakers don't know they speak "Mandarin." I know because I used to be a bilingual customer rep. When you ask them do you want to be transferred to a Mandarin rep or Cantonese rep, alot of them will keep saying "Chinese Chinese."

 

[marzlapin]

Crazy the second most popular language in a lot of states is Tagalog, and I've never even heard of it. Is it pronounced tag a log?

It's more like Ta-ga-loh (with a soft "a" sound like as in "ah I see")

 

[pa22word]

The hell at all the German?

I know historically some states had huge numbers of Germans settle there, is this just a relic of that? People still speaking it generations on?

German is technically the largest ethnic group in the US. Basically everyone from the midwest or anywhere near it is likely to have some German in them.

My mother speaks quite a bit of German due to her grandparents both being from Germany.

 

[captjohnboyd]

"Spoken language"
"Chinese"

No.

My girlfriend is half Chinese, spent half her life in Hong Kong, speaks Mandarin and Cantonese and still refers to it as Chinese Lol

 

[Charles Brandon]

German is technically the largest ethnic group in the US. Basically everyone from the midwest or anywhere near it is likely to have some German in them.

My mother speaks quite a bit of German due to her grandparents both being from Germany.

Larger than British? I thought British roots were hugely prevalent, albeit obfuscated as people tried to distance themselves following Independence?

 

[pa22word]

Larger than British? I thought British roots were hugely prevalent, albeit obfuscated as people tried to distance themselves following Independence?

It's the same for Germans too with the two world wars. There are quite a few cities and towns with new names following the wars, not to mention people who Anglicized their names.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

Navajo is considered a foreign language in the US?

 

[Rentahamster]

It's interesting how in this survey the different types of Filipino languages are differentiated, whereas the Chinese ones are not.

 

[Charles Brandon]

It's the same for Germans too with the two world wars. There are quite a few cities and towns with new names following the wars, not to mention people who Anglicized their names.

Aye - just had a quick google 'cause I remember looking at this before so...

German is the largest self-selected ethnic group, however changes to the way the census works lead to huge numbers of people identifying themselves as 'American' rather than any particular heritage. Those people are thought to be people who previously identified themselves as having British or English ancestry when cross referenced with previous censuses (censi?) Therefore, whilst a cursory examination of the census produces the answer of 'German' (and this has been widely reported) more rigorous research suggests that English/British heritage is still dominant.

Also, you are absolutely correct to say that many Germans anglicized their names, however because that happened relativity recently, their descendants are still often cognisant of their true heritage, where is the descendants of the people who emphasised (or even made up) their Irish/other not English heritage after independence often have no idea of their true ancestry, due to the passage of time. But this is difficult to quantify and English would still be the dominant ethnicity even without this factor, as per the previous paragraph.

 

[andythinkpad]

It's interesting how in this survey the different types of Filipino languages are differentiated, whereas the Chinese ones are not.

Well both Mandarin and Cantonese have the same written language.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Larger than British? I thought British roots were hugely prevalent, albeit obfuscated as people tried to distance themselves following Independence?

1. German
2. Irish
3. English
4. Italian

 

[Charles Brandon]

1. German
2. Irish
3. English
4. Italian

See above

 

[DrSlek]

Foreign Languages

• French Creole
• Navajo

Uhhh...

 

[The Technomancer]

Crazy the second most popular language in a lot of states is Tagalog, and I've never even heard of it. Is it pronounced tag a log?

Difficult to approximate in text (also I'm not Filipino) but I believe its like tuh-GA-log

 

[.la1n]

Not surprised at Georgia; pretty sizable Korean population.

 

[UltimaPooh]

I was about to say it would be Spanish pretty much across the board.

 

[Dynomutt]

Uhhh...

Navojo yeah lol. I might be wrong but the French Creole they are referring to is not the "Bayou" Creole your thinking of but actually Kreyol Francaise or Kreyol Ayisyen. Especially since they indicated FL which has a good concentration of Haitians. Assuming Essentially Haitian Creole. The word Creole alone can refer to a peoples, type of cooking/food, or a mix of languages.

I would be hard pressed if they meant actual "Bayou" Creole not to say it is not possible. Especially when Louisiana has just French listed.

 

[Sunster]

Surprised at Florida. I've never once heard French Creole here. It must be all concentrated in a specific area. I would have thought an Asian language.

Edit: Oh right, Miami has a Little Haiti so they must all be around the southern tip of the state.

 

[Zelenogorsk]

Would not have guessed German for my home state of Missouri. Learn something new everyday.

 

[plainr_]

Crazy the second most popular language in a lot of states is Tagalog, and I've never even heard of it. Is it pronounced tag a log?

Ta-gah-lowg

 

[Aiustis]

Oh yeah German. Half of everyone I know seems to have taken it in highschool. There's a German language school here and I know a least 6 people that went there and are fluent.

Amish people

 

[RustyNails]

I refuse to believe there are immigrants in Nebraska.

 

[akira28]

I kept looking for Espanol. of course they omitted it.

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

Would not have guessed German for my home state of Missouri. Learn something new everyday.

Missouri is called the United States Rhineland.

 

[Massicot]

I hadn't heard of Hmong before. Today I learned!

 

[Zoe]

And wth is the article talking about saying Tagalog is the "second" official language of the Philippines. Filipino and Tagalog are the same thing..

Seriously, wtf?

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

The hell at all the German?

I know historically some states had huge numbers of Germans settle there, is this just a relic of that? People still speaking it generations on?

The Amish and Mennonites predominantly speak German, and there are some smaller communities throughout the Midwest that have strong German heritage. They're probably a small portion of the population overall, but they add up (especially when Spanish is excluded from the results).

 

[TheOfficeMut]

CHINESE IN NEW YORK

WHAT

Yoooooooooo I'm certainly biased but I expected Spanish.

The fugazi

 

[gutshot]

CHINESE IN NEW YORK

WHAT

Yoooooooooo I'm certainly biased but I expected Spanish.

The fugazi

You may want to read the bolded sentence in the OP