Heard them talking about this very cool MLA Language Map today on NPR. They mentioned that it would be a good resource for librarians so that they can find out all the languages spoken in their community, as well as all sorts of other interesting applications.
I thought it was interesting that in Milpitas (where I've been working lately), the breakdown of languages are:
All languages other than English combined: 34,934
English, 23,281
(and the breakdown of top languages are:
Vietnamese, 7,287
Chinese, 7,063
Spanish or Spanish Creole, 6,479
Tagalog, 6,141
Other Indic languages, 1,594
Other Asian languages, 1,011
Hindi, 935
Other Pacific Island languages, 900
Korean, 750
Urdu, 494
Japanese, 349
Gujarathi, 289 ... and on down to lots of others)
San Jose is
All languages other than English combined: 423,150
English: 402,804
in comparison,
Seattle is
English: 429,105
All languages other than English combined: 108,433
I'm going to check out some other places...
Woohoo! Entry #500.
Posted by Emily at June 21, 2004 08:17 PM