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For those who don't know, LOTES stands for "Languages Other Than English And Spanish", which is a term increasingly used by American sociologists, linguists and anthropologists when discussing the ethnic and linguistic diversity of their country.
Well, even when leaving aside the USA's first two most-spoken languages, there are still millions who speak other languages, whether immigrant or Amerindian.
Immigrant Languages
Adamawa Fulfulde (30,500), Afrikaans (23,000), Aklanon (23,600), Amharic (195,000), Arabic (924,000), Assamese (1,310), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (80,000), Belarusian (1,810), Belize Kriol English (40,000), Bengali (258,000), Bukharic (50,000), Bulgarian (57,800), Burmese (62,600), Catalan (2,330), Cebuano (15,700), Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (80,000), Chuukese (8,790), Copala Triqui (5,000), Croatian (53,000), Danish (28,300), Dutch (142,000), Eastern Punjabi (254,000), Efik (5,260), Fijian (5,760), Finnish (25,800), Garifuna (65,000), Gheg Albanian (66,900), Greek (305,000), Gujarati (373,000), Guyanese Creole English, Haitian Creole (453,000), Hakka Chinese (3,800), Halh Mongolian (10,200), Hebrew (213,000), Hindi (643,000), Hmong Daw (185,000), Hmong Njua (100,000), Hungarian (86,400), Icelandic (4,870), Ilocano (85,800), Indonesian (67,400), Iranian Persian (391,000), Irish (20,600), Italian (709,000), Iu Mien (19,000), Jamaican Creole English (22,000), Japanese (449,000), Kabardian (3,500), Kannada (48,600), Kashmiri (1,780), Kazakh (1,480), Khmer (212,000), Khmu (8,000), Korean (1,120,000), Kosraean (1,170), Krio (6,900), Kwakiutl (180), Lahu Shi (1,200), Lao (153,000), Lithuanian (39,800), Macedonian (22,900), Malay (14,600), Malayalam (146,000), Mandarin Chinese (1,370,000), Marathi (73,600), Marshallese (18,500), Min Dong Chinese (4,080), Min Nan Chinese (219,000), Mixtepec Mixtec, Nepali (94,200), Northern Kurdish (17,000), Northern Pashto (22,800), Norwegian (39,400), Odia (5,390), Palauan (4,140), Pampangan (5,620), Parsi (75,000), Pohnpeian (3,530), Polish (580,000), Portuguese (693,000), Romanian (155,000), Russian (879,000), Samoan (64,100), Scottish Gaelic (1,640), Serbian (70,300), Shelta (7,000), Sindhi (8,970), Sinhala (26,700), Slovak (27,900), Slovene (6,370), Somali (76,200), Soninke (5,000), South Azerbaijani (2,090), Standard Estonian (6,040), Standard Latvian (16,000), Swahili (88,700), Swedish (55,700), Tai Dam (3,000), Tamil (191,000), Tatar (7,000), Telugu (248,000), Thai (153,000), Tibetan (16,700), Tongan (31,400), Tosk Albanian (66,900), Turkish (117,000), Turoyo (5,000), Ukrainian (152,000), Urdu (398,000), Uyghur (8,900), Vietnamese (1,400,000), Vlaams (2,000), Welsh (2,240), Western Highland Purepecha (45,000), Wu Chinese (7,510), Yucatec Maya (25,000), Yue Chinese (1,290,000)
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