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2013 American Community Survey - Table Packages: Detailed Language Spoken in the U.S.

  • Example Call: Shows the number of Spanish speakers in 2013 in California: 

api.census.gov/data/2013/language?get=EST,LANLABEL,NAME&for=state:06&LAN=625

Additional language codes in API

LAN7 LANLABEL
1 Population 5 years and over
2 Speak only English
3 Speak a language other than English at home
4 SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE
5 OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
6 ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES
7 ALL OTHER LANGUAGES

LAN39 LANLABEL
1 SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE
2 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
3 French Creole
4 Italian
5 Portuguese (incl. Portuguese Creole)
6 German (incl. Luxembourgian)
7 Yiddish
8 Other West Germanic languages
9 Scandinavian languages
10 Greek
11 Russian
12 Polish
13 Serbo-Croatian languages
14 Other Slavic languages
15 Armenian
16 Persian
17 Hindi
18 Gujarati
19 Urdu
20 Other Indic languages
21 Other Indo-European languages
22 Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)
23 Japanese
24 Korean
25 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
26 Hmong
27 Thai
28 Laotian
29 Vietnamese
30 Other Asian languages
31 Tagalog
32 Other Pacific Island languages
33 Navajo
34 Other Native North American languages
35 Hungarian
36 Arabic
37 Hebrew
38 African languages
39 Other and unspecified languages

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(B) Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
(X) Question does not apply.
-- Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.

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