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May 18, 2023 · About 190,000 Arabic speakers live in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metro area in Michigan. They represent about 13% of all Arabic speakers in the U.S. and 91% of those in Michigan. The next-most common metro areas for Arabic speakers are New York-Newark-Jersey City (155,000) and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (85,000).
Arab Americans, almost 3.7 million strong as of 2023 according to census data provided by the Arab American Institute, do not all speak Arabic, and less than half are Muslim. Some scholars reported observing a swift transition from using Arabic to using English among Arab immigrant families in the US.
Jun 7, 2023 · Today, in the United States, as many as 1.4 million people call Arabic their native tongue; that is a tremendous percentage increase of approximately 551% since 1980 when there were only some meagerly accounted for 215 speakers!
The report, Language Use in the United States: 2019, uses American Community Survey (ACS) data to highlight trends and characteristics of the different languages spoken in the United States over the past four decades. Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Arabic speakers were more likely to be naturalized U.S. citizens than not U.S. citizens.
Jun 20, 2018 · From Dearborn, Michigan to Los Angeles, California, more and more Americans and immigrants are speaking Arabic. The popularity of the language is spreading to other states as well, with Texas and New Jersey being home to over 100,000 Arabic speakers combined.
Oct 9, 2014 · Mary Beth Griggs. October 9, 2014. David H. Wells/Corbis. In the United States, 21 percent of people speak a language other than English at home. That's an increase of three percent since...
Mar 31, 2019 · Speakers of Arabic — one of the fastest-growing languages in the U.S. — will have one fewer barrier to participating in the upcoming 2020 census.
