Arabic language in the United States
Arabic is the fastest-growing foreign language taught at U.S. colleges and universities, a trend mirrored at the University of Iowa.[7]
An Arabic warning sign at the Detroit People Mover Grand Circus Park station
Arabic speakers in the US | |
Year |
Speakers |
|---|---|
| 1910a | 32,868 |
| 1920a | 57,557 |
| 1930a | 67,830 |
| 1940a | 50,940 |
| 1960a | 49,908 |
| 1970a | 73,657 |
| 1980a | 251,409 |
| 1990[1] | 355,150 |
| 2000[2] | 614,582 |
| 2010[3] | 864,961 |
| 2014[4] | 1,117,304 |
| ^a Foreign-born population only[5][6] | |
| State | Arabic speakers |
|---|---|
| California | 158,398 |
| Michigan | 101,470 |
| New York | 86,269 |
| Texas | 54,340 |
| Illinois | 53,251 |
| New Jersey | 51,011 |
| Virginia | 36,683 |
| Florida | 34,698 |
| Ohio | 33,125 |
Arabic in 2006 became the 10th most-studied language in the United States.[7]
In 2013, Arabic was ranked the 8th place on the list of enrollments in higher education in the USA.[8]
References
- "Detailed Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for Persons 5 Years and Over --50 Languages with Greatest Number of Speakers: United States 1990". United States Census Bureau. 1990. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- "Language Spoken at Home: 2000". United States Bureau of the Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on February 12, 2020.
- Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
- "Mother Tongue of the Foreign-Born Population: 1910 to 1940, 1960, and 1970". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- "Language Spoken at Home for the Foreign-Born Population 5 Years and Over: 1980 and 1990". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- Heldt, Diane (March 25, 2010). "Arabic is fastest-growing language at U.S. colleges". The Gazette. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
- Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2013 David Goldberg, Dennis Looney, and Natalia Lusin, Web publication, February 2015
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