Hindi most spoken in U.S. |
Hindi has emerged as the largest Indian language spoken in the U.S., with nearly 650,000 people speaking it. The U.S. Census Bureau, based on American Community Survey data collected from 2009 to 2013, said that more than 60 million people in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home, 25 million of whom speak English.Top languagesother than English spoken in U.S. homes include Spanish (with more than 37.4 million speakers), Chinese (about 2.9 million), French (1.3 million), Korean (1.1 million), German (1.1 million), Vietnamese (1.4 million), Arabic (924,573), Tagalog (1.6 million) and Russian(879,434).India`s national language Hindi tops the list from India with nearly 650,000 speakers.Nearly 400,000 U.S. residents speak Urdu, and Gujarati is spoken by more than 370,000 people. Other than Hindi, all the major Indian languages are also spoken in the U.S. While Bengali and Punjabi are spoken by more than 250,000 people each, Marathi is spoken by more than 73,000 people, Oriya (more than 5,000), Assamese (about 1,300) and Kashmiri by about 1,700 people . It has even listed Bihari as a language spoken by nearly 600 people andRajasthani by about 700.
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