Other than English, what languages are common where you live?

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1. Spanish, polish, Ukrainian, Russian.

2. Spanish, Vietnamese.

3. We’ve got an Amish and Mennonite community around here, so Pennsylvania Dutch/Plautdietsch. I’m not sure what exact dialect the group around here uses.

   Besides that, there are some immigrant workers from Latin America at some of the farms and restaurants, so Spanish.

4. Spanish, Korean and multiple Eastern European languages.

5. Arabic and Spanish.

6. Spanish and (insert dialects spoken in India of which I am unsure of names)

7. Spanish.

8. Spanish and Spanish. We’re 90 miles from the Mexican border, though.

   The third most spoken language in Arizona is Navajo, but that’s mostly Northern Arizona.

9. The local government always publishes things in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese, so I presume those are the most widely spoken languages (other than English, obviously).

10. Haitian Kreyol and Portuguese

11. Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese

12. French, if you drive 40 minutes to the north.

13. Spanish, with pockets of Portuguese and Vietnamese

14. Italian, Spanish, and various South Asian languages like Hindi

15. Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, more German than you’d think, probably a dozen minor West African dialects, mostly centred around Nigeria and Cameroon. Oh, I imagine Amharic as well.

16. Spanish and Polish.

    I also hear Arabic, Burmese, Russian, Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean.

17. From what I hear during a week, Ilocano, Tagalog, Chuuk, some other Micronesian language, Tongan, Samoan, Japanese, Korean and at least one Chinese.

18. Spanish, Somali, Amhara, Swahili, Hmong, Chuukese, and a bunch of others. There are approximately 25 language groups here.

19. Spanish

20. Spanish

21. All of the communication from our schools are published in English, Spanish, Nepali, and Somali. It’s a delightfully diverse suburb.

22. Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog

23. There’s some shops near me where they’ll assume you speak Polish if you don’t say something in English off the bat.

24. Spanish, Tagalog, and American Sign Language due to a large public school for the deaf nearby

25. Spanish and Somali

26. Spanish and Hindi. But It’s all international students who already know English when they arrive.

27. Spanish, Somali, Arabic, Hmong, Ukrainian/Russian and to a lesser extent, Norwegian

28. Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and some German

29. Spanish.

30. Spanish, Tagalog

31. Spanish and Vietnamese

32. In Fall River & New Bedford, Portuguese is the unofficial second language

33. I hear people speaking Chinese a couple times a week usually. Once in a while I’ll hear Spanish and Korean.

34. Spanish and Korean

35. Spanish, Navajo

36. Spanish and Korean.

37. Spanish, more distinctly, Mexican

    German….think *Mennonite influence*

38. Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese mandarin, & Haitian Creole

39. Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese

40. Spanish and Korean

41. Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Tongan, Samoan, and a few Native American languages.

42. Spanish mostly, some Hmong too