America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
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America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
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#2Very surprised Navajo is so strong.
Re: America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
#3Very surprised Navajo is so strong.
Makes sense considering the Navajo Nation in those states though
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#4> Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese)
This is enough to discredit the whole infographic in my eyes. No matter what the CPC or anybody else may claim, these are distinct languages, and not dialects. Not only that, but in some of these places a lot of Chinese speak other regional Chinese languages, such as Fuzhounese, rather than Mandarin or Cantonese. (I remember a blog from twenty or so years ago by a NYC Chinatown native who mapped his building by language; something like a dozen Chinese languages were spoken by residents of that building's apartments.)
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#5> Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) This is enough to discredit the whole infographic in my eyes. No matter what the CPC or anybody else may claim, these are distinct languages, and not dialects. Not only that, but in some of these places a lot of Chinese speak other regional Chinese languages, such as Fuzhounese, rather than Mandarin or Cantonese. (I remember a blog from twenty or so years ago by a NYC Chinatown native w…
the point is to give an idea of the approximate region that people come from, not to give a professionally accurate linguistic picture
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#6> Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) This is enough to discredit the whole infographic in my eyes. No matter what the CPC or anybody else may claim, these are distinct languages, and not dialects. Not only that, but in some of these places a lot of Chinese speak other regional Chinese languages, such as Fuzhounese, rather than Mandarin or Cantonese. (I remember a blog from twenty or so years ago by a NYC Chinatown native w…
the point is to give an idea of the approximate region that people come from, not to give a professionally accurate linguistic picture
Mandarin and Cantonese are distinct, mutually unintelligible languages that sound as different to each other as Spanish and French.
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#7> Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) This is enough to discredit the whole infographic in my eyes. No matter what the CPC or anybody else may claim, these are distinct languages, and not dialects. Not only that, but in some of these places a lot of Chinese speak other regional Chinese languages, such as Fuzhounese, rather than Mandarin or Cantonese. (I remember a blog from twenty or so years ago by a NYC Chinatown native w…
The thing you're complaining about doesn't even mention the word "dialect" and it says underneath: "Some Census categories combine multiple languages or language groups". So they're probably just doing the best they can with the data that is available to them.
I think you're right that Cantonese should be (and usually is) referred to as a "language" but the categories "dialect" and "language" are not mutually exclusive. For example, Dutch is both a language (for most purposes) and a dialect of West Continental Germanic (for some linguistic purposes).
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#8You know there are 34 countries in America other than the United States.
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#9It would be helpful to show n. speakers of those languages or at least grade based on % of remaining non-English, non-Spanish speakers.
My intuition is that German, for example, is much less active of a language in the US, where immigration peaked long ago, than Chinese, where immigration is active.
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#10that's a lot more German than I would have guessed