How Many People in the United States Speak Fulani?
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All Languages Reported to the US Census in 2000
Click on a language to see 2000 data about states in which it is spoken, the ages of speakers, and their reported ability to speak English. This list, formulated by the Census Bureau, combines languages reported to census enumerators with languages identified as spoken in the United States in C. F. Voegelin and F. M. Voegelin’s Classification and Index of the World’s Languages (New York: Elsevier, 1977). Data about many of the less frequently spoken languages listed here are not included in the 2005 American Community Survey. To find if 2005 data are available for any of these languages, click “show all languages” on a US, State, Region, or Division table displaying 2005 data. To find out more about any language on this list, visit Ethnologue, an online index of the world’s languages.
(Posted on June 16, 2008)
Comments
And…the LEFTISTS and RACE HUSTLERS and IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES will DEMAND that all these languages be RECOGNIZED in this country and that those who speak those lnguages be considered as “PROTECTED CLASSES and MINORITIES”!…after all, if you check out some of those off the wall languages and where they originate from…chances are they are “refugees” brought into this country…collecting all the benefits and enjoying all the rights afforded CITIZENS!
Posted by Suzan Donoghue at 11:57 AM on June 17
Since the Census Bureau is spending our money to keep track of this, I intend to be a little creative with my next census form.
I will report that I live with 6 wives, 2 co-husbands and 11 children, and that we speak Nauruan at home.
The only legitimate constitutional purpose for having a census is for the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives. Since the Census Bureau has elected to request information that the government is not entitled to collect, they deserve to be fed the most egregious drivel we can concoct.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 1:19 PM on June 17
Wow, that list just keeps on going, doesn’t it? Personally, I am shocked to not find Klingon on that list!
Posted by Anglokraut at 2:30 PM on June 17
Let me tell you a secret. In this multicultural driven modern liberal society if it were but a single person, odds are someone would lodge a demand or a lawsuit resulting in an entire multi million dollar bureacracy being implemented for this one person.
Of course, a taxpayer funded anthropologist would have to be dispatched to conduct field research on the person to ensure their enthnography was in order.
If I were running things, I would see the job done for the cost of a first class stamp paying for a letter which stated in English to learn English.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 4:50 PM on June 17
Wait a second. the ATM at the local bank drive by window has a key to press for something called Hmoob, which is not on that list. Either the MLA or Wells Fargo must be wrong - or maybe both are. Of course press 3 for Hmoob is a reason I have nothing further to do with either of those organizations.
Posted by at 5:06 PM on June 17
Funny you should mention Klingon, Anglokraut. One acquaintance, lost in Japan, was able to get directions from local Japanese Trekkers by talking to them in Klingon. Science Fiction Nerd-dom does has its advantages.
The “Hmoob” you see at ATMs is really just Hmong. Just your bank being PC with your money to benefit murderers and game poachers who rose from the stone age only when our government used them as mercenaries in Vietnam in the 1960s, while using police and national guardsmen to smash dissent at home.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 9:17 AM on June 18
Something is fishy… As a former Peace Corps volunteer who served in the western Pacific islands, I can confirm there is no such language as “Micronesian” as shown on the chart. The fourteen native languages of the Micronesian islands are listed separately, but there is no single vernacular known as “Micronesian.” Thus, at least 2,160 of those surveyed seem to have pulled a fast one on the census takers.
Posted by Francis at 12:29 AM on June 19