The Most Commonly Spoken Language of Each State (That’s Not English or Spanish)

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Ben Blatt for Slate crafted maps that show a breakdown of the most commonly spoken languages in the country, based on information from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

On a state level, though Spanish is the overwhelming second-runner up to English, this is not necessarily the case in every state. French, German and a couple others have made their mark as well.

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The Census Bureau estimates that Spanish speakers in the United States could grow to 43 million by 2020, up from 38 million who already reported speaking the language in 2012.