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Figure 2 displays the breakdown of age and nativity for the five most commonly spoken languages other than English in 2019. Speakers of Spanish and Arabic, the first and fifth most common foreign languages spoken, had similar age compositions.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 42 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. [1] Spanish is also the most learned language other than English , [3] with about 8 million students.
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Of the more than 498 million people who speak Spanish as their native language, more than 455 million are in Latin America, the United States and Canada in 2022. The total amount of native and non-native speakers of Spanish as of October 2022 exceeds 595 million.
Pernia Jamshed. In America in 2019, approximately 78% (241 million) of all 308.8 million people aged five and older reported speaking only English at home regardless of their nativity. Tagalog is the second most commonly spoken language in American households (after English/Spanish) with 1.7 million speakers.
"Hispanic" is generally accepted as a narrower term that includes people only from Spanish-speaking Latin America, including those countries/territories of the Caribbean or from Spain itself. With this understanding, a Brazilian could be Latino and non-Hispanic, a Spaniard could be Hispanic and non-Latino, and a Colombian could use both terms.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A: Yes, the majority of Puerto Ricans speak Spanish as their first language. However, many Puerto Ricans also speak English fluently due to the island’s history with the U.S. and the influence of American culture.
Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere. It belongs to the group of Caribbean Spanish variants and, as such, is largely derived from Canarian Spanish and Andalusian Spanish .
