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English populations around the world:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ENG

An example (from my home):

USA
Language name ENGLISH
Population 210,000,000 first language speakers in USA (1984 estimate). 8,400,000 USA residents with no one 14 years old or older who speaks fluent English; 38% or 7,700,000 households headed by immigrants.
Dialects BLACK ENGLISH.
Comments There are many regional dialects. Official language. Bible 1382-1989. See main entry under United Kingdom.


Languages of USA
See language map.
[See also SIL publications on the languages of USA.]

United States of America. National or official languages: English (in Hawaii), Hawaiian (in Hawaii), Spanish (in New Mexico). 274,000,000 (1999 census), 1,900,000 American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleut, not all speaking indigenous languages (1990 census). Literacy rate 95% to 99%. Also includes Abaza 15, Adyghe 3,000, Gheg Albanian 17,382, Tosk Albanian, Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, Najdi Spoken Arabic 193,520, Armenian 1,100,000, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 80,000, South Azerbaijani, Bahamas Creole English, Bahnar, Basque 8,108, Belarusan 10,000, Bengali, Brao 90, Breton 32,722, Western Bru, Bukharic, Bulgarian, Burmese 1,581, Catalan-Valencian-Balear 40,000, Cebuano, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 80,000, Eastern Cham 10, Western Cham 3,000, Hakka Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Min Nan Chinese, Yue Chinese, Chru 1, Cora, Corsican, Crimean Turkish, Upper Guinea Crioulo 156,000, Czech 1,452,812, Danish 194,000, Dutch 412,637, Estonian 20,507, Western Farsi 900,000, Finnish 214,168, French 1,100,000, Eastern Frisian, Western Frisian, Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Garifuna 50,000, Georgian 757, Standard German 6,093,054, Greek 458,699, Gujarati, Guyanese Creole English, Haitian Creole French 200,000, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi 26,253, Fijian Hindustani, Hmong Daw 70,000, Hmong Njua 100,000, Hulaula, Hungarian 447,497, Icelandic 9,768, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian 906,000, Iu Mien 24,000, Japanese 804,000, Jarai, Kabardian 2,000, Kabuverdianu 400,000, Kalmyk-Oirat, Eastern Kanjobal, Western Kanjobal, Karachay-Balkar, Central Khmer 50,000, Khmu, Khuen, Klao, Koho, Korean 1,800,000, Kurdi, Kurmanji, Kwakiutl 45, Ladin, Ladino, Lahu Shi 2,000, Lamet 24, Lao 171,577, Latvian 50,000, Laven, Laz 1, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luri, Luxembourgeois 20,618, Mal, Malay 6,253, Ambonese Malay 20, Maltese, Mixtepec Mixteco, Eastern Mnong, Nhang 5, Northern Central America Creole English 40,000, Bokmaal Norwegian 612,862, Nung, Mezquital Otom�, Eastern Panjabi 100,000, Western Panjabi, Parsi 75,000, Phu Thai, Piemontese, Pingelapese 500, Polish 2,437,938, Pontic, Portuguese 365,000, Rade, Rapa Nui, Balkan Romani, Carpathian Romani 18,000, Vlax Romani 650,000, Romanian 56,590, Samoan 120,000, Senaya 400, Serbo-Croatian 249,257, Shelta 50,000, Sherpa 500, Sindhi, Slovak 510,366, Slovenian 82,321, Southwestern Caribbean Creole English, Swahili 3,991, Swedish 626,102, Tagalog 377,000, Tai Daeng, Tai Dam 3,000, Upper Taoih, Tatar 7,000, Tay, Thai 14,416, Tibetan 3,000, Tokelauan, Tondano 20, Tongan 3,000, Traveller Scottish, Turkish 24,123, Turkmen, Turoyo 5,000, Ukrainian 249,351, Uyghur, Northern Uzbek, Vietnamese 859,000, Yevanic 15, Eastern Yiddish 1,250,000, Yoruba, Cajonos Zapoteco, San Juan Guelav�a Zapoteco 500, Yalalag Zapoteco, Yatzachi Zapoteco, Zoogocho Zapoteco 400, Arabic 3,000,000, Chinese 1,645,000, from the Philippines 1,405,000, South Asians 634,000, speakers of other African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Pacific languages. Approximately 1,000,000 Gypsies use a variety of Romani as first or second language (1980 census). Information mainly from W. Chafe 1962, 1965; M. Mithun and L. Campbell 1979; C.A. Callaghan 1998; M-L Tarpent and D. Kendall 1998; SIL 1951-1999. Christian, secular, Jewish, Muslim. Blind population 500,000. Deaf population nearly 2,000,000 (1988). Deaf institutions: many. Data accuracy estimate: A1, A2. The number of languages listed for USA is 231. Of those, 176 are living languages, 3 are second languages without mother tongue speakers, and 52 are extinct. Diversity index 0.35.


What stands out for me: 52 more languages have become extinct! In other words, extinct languages account for 23% of the total! Nearly a quarter of languages in the USA are dead.

America: Languages check in, but they don't check out!