Table 3. Main languages spoken in the United States and nativity of speakers, 2008-10.

(population 5 years or older)
Languages spoken	Estimated N of speakers	% of population	% speakers foreign-born	% speakers born in U.S.
English-only	228,285,377	79.7	2.6%	97.4%
Non-English languages	58,266,345	20.3	56.7%	43.3%
Europe/Americas:
Spanish	36,149,240	12.6	49.4%	50.6%
French*	1,267,188	0.4	38.6%	61.4%
German*	1,102,804	0.4	38.6%	61.4%
Russian	849,796	0.3	82.6%	17.4%
Italian	738,871	0.3	40.6%	59.4%
Haitian Creole	696,163	0.2	71.5%	28.5%
Portuguese	689,697	0.2	70.5%	29.5%
Polish	583,427	0.2	66.7%	33.3%
Greek	313,092	0.1	42.1%	57.9%
East/South Asia:
Chinese	2,633,123	0.9	78.0%	22.0%
Hindi, Urdu and related	2,088,057	0.7	81.4%	18.6%
Filipino Tagalog and related	1,709,651	0.6	87.1%	12.9%
Vietnamese	1,338,309	0.5	76.7%	23.3%
Korean	1,124,994	0.4	80.7%	19.3%
Khmer, Hmong, Lao and related	748,896	0.3	65.7%	34.3%
Dravidian	595,019	0.2	88.5%	11.5%
Japanese	455,253	0.2	60.4%	39.6%
West Asia/North Africa:
Arabic	819,678	0.3	69.5%	30.5%
Persian (Farsi)	370,759	0.1	79.5%	20.5%
All other languages	3,992,328	1.4	61.3%	38.7%
Total (5 years or older)	286,551,722	100%	13.6%	86.4%

^*French excludes Patois, Cajun, Haitian Creole; German excludes Pennsylvania Dutch. Source: American Community Survey (ACS), 2008-2010 merged files.