Maps of Languages

Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 5:14 —by Joe Crawford
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The Modern Language Association has some neat maps and datasets about language. In part of it you can browse by language by region. Here are some San Diego Links.

Languages in San Diego

And here is the list, sorted by number of speakers in San Diego —

San Diego, California
Language   Total
English 714,484
All languages other than English combined 427,258
Spanish or Spanish Creole 244,254
Tagalog 49,794
Vietnamese 26,255
Chinese 18,796
Persian 7,405
Japanese 7,308
Laotian 6,171
French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 6,130
German 5,955
African languages 5,463
Korean 5,357
Other Pacific Island languages 4,906
Russian 4,088
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian 4,079
Italian 3,969
Arabic 3,771
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole 3,592
Other Asian languages 1,782
Hindi 1,619
Other Indic languages 1,397
Polish 1,393
Scandinavian languages 1,347
Other Slavic languages 1,319
Hebrew 1,294
Other Indo-European languages 1,232
Greek 1,153
Miao, Hmong 1,148
Other West Germanic languages 933
Other and unspecified languages 880
Thai 879
Serbo-Croatian 876
Urdu 590
Hungarian 579
Gujarathi 555
Armenian 432
Yiddish 287
French Creole 142
Navajo 91
Other Native North American languages 37
Total 1,141,742

And here’s the list further broken down by age

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