I checked out the website Hovhannes posted (http://www.census.gov/ ) and found out that there are Four Major Language Groups in the USA:
(1) Spanish includes Spanish, Spanish Creole, and Ladino.
(2) Other Indo-European languages include most languages of Europe and the Indic languages of
India. These include the Germanic languages, such as German, Yiddish, and Dutch; the Scandinavian
languages, such as Swedish and Norwegian; the Romance languages, such as French, Italian, and
Portuguese; the Slavic languages, such as Russian, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian; the Indic languages, such
as Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and Urdu; Celtic languages; Greek; Baltic languages; and Iranian languages.
(3) Asian and Pacific Island languages include Chinese; Korean; Japanese; Vietnamese; Hmong; Khmer;
Lao; Thai; Tagalog or Pilipino; the Dravidian languages of India, such as Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam;
and other languages of Asia and the Pacifi c, including the Philippine, Polynesian, and Micronesian
languages.
(4) All Other languages include Uralic languages, such as Hungarian; the Semitic languages, such as
Arabic and Hebrew; languages of Africa; native North American languages, including the American
Indian and Alaska native languages; and indigenous languages of Central and South America.
Answered by Fox Tutor
S Joy F. on Dec 6th 2012 at 07:37 AM
