Country Info

United States Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 323,359,712 people (99% of United States) that can read or write at least one language.

22 Writing Systems used in United States

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
313,560,960
people

Spanish (Latin)

es-latn
language code
31,356,097
people

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-hant
language code
2,253,719
people

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
1,829,105
people

German (Latin)

de-latn
language code
1,535,142
people

Filipino (Latin)

fil-latn
language code
1,371,829
people

Italian (Latin)

it-latn
language code
1,110,528
people

Vietnamese (Latin)

vi-latn
language code
1,110,528
people

Korean (Korean)

ko-kore
language code
979,878
people

Russian (Cyrillic)

ru-cyrl
language code
783,902
people

Navajo (Latin)

nv-latn
language code
166,579
people

Yiddish (Hebrew)

yi-hebr
language code
160,046
people

Pennsylvania German (Latin)

pdc-latn
language code
127,384
people

Hawaiian (Latin)

haw-latn
language code
29,069
people

Cajun French (Latin)

frc-latn
language code
27,763
people

Cherokee (Cherokee)

chr-cher
language code
25,150
people

Central Yupik (Latin)

esu-latn
language code
20,250
people

Dakota (Latin)

dak-latn
language code
19,270
people

Choctaw (Latin)

cho-latn
language code
10,778
people

Lakota (Latin)

lkt-latn
language code
8,165
people

Inupiaq (Latin)

ik-latn
language code
7,839
people

Creek (Latin)

mus-latn
language code
3,919
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR