<Li> other and unspecified languages--258,257 </Li> <P> According to the 2016 American Community Survey, a project of the United States Census Bureau, the languages spoken at home by the most people older than five years of age are: </P> <Ol> <Li> English only--237.8 million </Li> <Li> Spanish--40.5 million </Li> <Li> Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese)--3.4 million </Li> <Li> Tagalog (including Filipino)--1.7 million </Li> <Li> Vietnamese--1.5 million </Li> <Li> Arabic--1.2 million </Li> <Li> French--1.2 million </Li> <Li> Korean--1.1 million </Li> <Li> Russian--0.91 million </Li> <Li> German--0.91 million </Li> <Li> Haitian Creole--0.86 million </Li> <Li> Hindi--0.81 million </Li> <Li> Portuguese--0.77 million </Li> <Li> Italian--0.58 million </Li> <Li> Polish--0.54 million </Li> <Li> Urdu--0.47 million </Li> <Li> Japanese--0.46 million </Li> <Li> Persian (including Farsi and Dari)--0.44 million </Li> <Li> Gujarati--0.41 million </Li> <Li> Telugu--0.37 million </Li> <Li> Bengali--0.32 million </Li> <Li> Tai--Kadai (including Thai and Lao)--0.31 million </Li> <Li> Greek--0.29 million </Li> <Li> Punjabi--0.29 million </Li> <Li> Tamil--0.27 million </Li> <Li> Armenian--0.24 million </Li> <Li> Serbo - Croatian (including Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian)--0.24 million </Li> <Li> Hebrew--0.23 million </Li> <Li> Hmong--0.22 million </Li> <Li> Bantu (including Swahili)--0.22 million </Li> <Li> Khmer--0.20 million </Li> <Li> Navajo--0.16 million </Li> </Ol> <Li> English only--237.8 million </Li>

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