Table 1.

Major Languages Spoken by English-Language–Isolated Groups^a

Language Group	Major Languages
Spanish	Spanish, Ladino
Other Indo-European languages	Most languages of Europe and the Indic languages of India, including 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, Gujarathi, Punjabi, and Urdu; Celtic languages; Greek; Baltic languages; and Iranian languages.
Asian and Pacific Island languages	Chinese; Korean; Japanese; Vietnamese; Hmong Khmer; Lao; Thai; Tagalog or Pilipino; the Dravidian languages of India, such as Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam; and other languages of Asia and the Pacific, including the Philippine, Polynesian, and Micronesian languages.

^aSource: Shin and Bruno (33).