America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
TLDR
- Chinese is the third most-spoken language in 13 U.S. states; the map visualizes dominant non-English, non-Spanish languages by state.
Key Takeaways
- Chinese leads as the top non-English, non-Spanish language in 13 states, reflecting dense immigrant communities in major metros.
- The underlying data likely draws from U.S. Census American Community Survey language-spoken-at-home figures.
- State-level variation is significant: regional languages like French (Louisiana), German (Midwest), and Tagalog (West) likely dominate outside Chinese-heavy states.
- This is a choropleth map product from Visual Capitalist’s Voronoi app, not a research study.
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