Last year, according to the Census Bureau, a record number of 65.5 million U.S. residents over five years of age spoke a language other than English at home. This is nearly twice the total of this category in 1990 and almost three times the total of 1980. The Center for Immigration Studies noted that “The largest percentage increases since 2010 among languages with more than 400,000 speakers were for Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Chinese, Persian, Haitian, and Gujarati. Hindi and Gujarati are spoken in India; Urdu is spoken in Pakistan.”
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