Interactive feature of the day :-)

The Modern Language Association Language Map
about languages spoken in the United States, according to census information.
The map can be configured by Mainland US, US state and other territories (see below :-)

There are 564,630 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole speakers in the entire US

However, the only US state where Portuguese gets to display visibly enough in a pie chart is Massachusetts:


Whereas Spanish rulezzzz in California (nah, really...) and Portuguese goes into the Other slice:



Number of speakers per language in the entire US

215,423,557 English
46,951,595 All languages other than English combined
28,101,052 Spanish or Spanish Creole
2,022,143 Chinese
1,643,838 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
1,383,442 German
1,224,241 Tagalog
1,009,627 Vietnamese
1,008,370 Italian
894,063 Korean
706,242 Russian
667,414 Polish
614,582 Arabic
564,630 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
477,997 Japanese
453,368 French Creole
418,505 African languages
365,436 Greek
317,057 Hindi
312,085 Persian
262,900 Urdu
235,988 Gujarathi
233,865 Serbo-Croatian
203,466 Other Native North American languages
202,708 Armenian
195,374 Hebrew
181,889 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
178,945 Yiddish
178,014 Navajo
168,063 Miao, Hmong
162,252 Scandinavian languages
149,303 Laotian
120,464 Thai
117,973 Hungarian

View and play with the Map

The Data Center lets one choose to see tables and pie charts by language, state and other criteria.