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German language in the United States
| American German | |
|---|---|
| US German | |
| Deutsch der Vereinigten Staaten | |
| Region | United States |
| Ethnicity | German Americans Austrian Americans Swiss Americans Liechtensteiner Americans Belgian Americans Luxembourgian Americans |
Native speakers | 1.06 million (2009–2013)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| IETF | de-US |
German speakers in the United States
| |
Year
|
Speakers
|
|---|---|
| 1910a | 2,759,032
|
| 1920a |  2,267,128 |
| 1930a | 2,188,006 |
| 1940a | 1,589,048 |
| 1960a | 1,332,399 |
| 1970a | 1,201,535 |
| 1980[2] |  1,586,593 |
| 1990[3] | 1,547,987 |
| 2000[4] | 1,383,442 |
| ^a Foreign-born population only[5] | |
Over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry, which makes them the largest single claimed ancestry group in the United States. Around 1.06 million people in the United States speak the German language at home.[6] It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population)[7] and is the third most spoken language in 16 other states.[8]
- ^ US Census Bureau American Community Survey (2009 - 2013) See Row #24
- ^ "Appendix Table 2. Languages Spoken at Home: 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2007". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ^ "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. 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.
- ^ "Mother Tongue of the Foreign-Born Population: 1910 to 1940, 1960, and 1970". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ^ "US Census Bureau American Community Survey (2009-2013)" (XLS). Census.gov. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ^ "Language Map Data Center". Mla.org. April 3, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
- ^ Blatt, Ben (May 13, 2014), Tagalog in California, Cherokee in Arkansas: What language does your state speak?, retrieved May 13, 2014
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