Most spoken languages in North Carolina in 2005
English is spoken by 90.70% of people over 5 years old in North Carolina.
Languages other than English are spoken by 9.30%.
Speakers of languages other than English are divided up as follows.
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North Carolina
Source: American Community Survey, 2005 Summary File
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| English |
7,071,543 |
90.70% |
| All languages other than English combined |
725,023 |
9.30% |
| Spanish |
482,431 |
6.19% |
| French |
25,607 |
0.33% |
| German |
22,229 |
0.29% |
| Chinese |
16,252 |
0.21% |
| Arabic |
15,674 |
0.20% |
| Vietnamese |
10,968 |
0.14% |
| Korean |
9,865 |
0.13% |
| Russian |
7,525 |
0.10% |
| Tagalog |
7,339 |
0.09% |
| Italian |
7,209 |
0.09% |
| Laotian |
7,007 |
0.09% |
| Greek |
6,802 |
0.09% |
| Hindi |
6,640 |
0.09% |
| Gujarathi |
6,473 |
0.08% |
| Mon-Khmer, Cambodian |
6,130 |
0.08% |
| French Creole |
5,804 |
0.07% |
| Urdu |
5,780 |
0.07% |
| Hmong |
5,054 |
0.06% |
| Japanese |
4,752 |
0.06% |
| Serbo-Croatian |
3,782 |
0.05% |
| Polish |
3,725 |
0.05% |
| Tamil |
3,332 |
0.04% |
| Ukrainian |
3,113 |
0.04% |
| Panjabi |
3,034 |
0.04% |
| Portuguese |
2,729 |
0.04% |
| Swahili |
2,663 |
0.03% |
| Persian |
2,517 |
0.03% |
| Telugu |
2,289 |
0.03% |
| Kru, Ibo, Yoruba |
2,154 |
0.03% |
| Total: |
7,796,566 |
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Data are estimates based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. Data are not displayed where there were insufficient samples with which to compute an estimate.
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