United
States or America as it is popularly known as is a Federal State. It consists
of fifty states and a federal district. Out of the fifty states, 43 states have
predominantly Spanish speaking people. But can we really know which language is
spoken majorly in each state? The answer is yes!
Recently,
the American Community Survey published a data representing the distribution of
languages spoken in entire United States other than English and Spanish.According
to the data it is evident that there are only 7 states in the US where Spanish
is not spoken as the native language. For Example French language is spoken as
the first language in Louisiana, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire German is
spoken in North Dakota, Italian language is spoken in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania,Yupik in Alaska, Tagalog is spoken in California and Nevada,
Vietnamese is spoken in Texas, French Creole in Florida, Korean in Georgia,German in Utah and Colorado, German in Montana, Vietnamese in Washington. American
Community Survey also came out with maps showing the distribution of Native
American language,Indo-Aryan language, African language and Scandinavian
language in each state.
The
map given above shows the distribution of various languages across United
States. It clearly signifies that Spanish is not the first language of most of
the US states. All the maps individually create an interesting and rich
portrait of the linguistic and cultural character of the United Nations.
