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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

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Question D. Which of these languages other than English do you speak most fluently?

Values

  • [1] english

  • [2] spanish

  • [3] polish

  • [4] french

  • [5] hebrew

  • [6] russian

  • [7] tagalog

  • [8] chinese

  • [9] urdu

  • [10] italian

  • [11] romanian

  • [12] german

  • [13] pashtu

  • [14] chamorro

  • [15] ukranian

  • [16] hungarian

  • [17] turkish

  • [18] khmer

  • [19] korean

  • [20] navajo

  • [21] malayam

  • [22] arabic

  • [23] farsi-persian

  • [24] serbian

  • [25] lithuanian

  • [27] thai

  • [28] gujarati

  • [30] dari

  • [31] slovak

  • [32] japanese

  • [33] portuguese

  • [34] vajun

  • [35] yidddish

  • [36] creole

  • [37] vietnamese

  • [38] norwegian

  • [39] malaysian

  • [40] latin

  • [41] czech

  • [42] hindu

  • [43] hakka

  • [44] swedish

  • [45] vesaya

  • [46] sign language

  • [47] tongan

  • [48] armenian

  • [49] ibo

  • [50] dutch

  • [51] cherokee

  • [52] samoan

  • [53] yoruba

  • [54] greek

  • [55] lakota

  • [56] african

  • [57] anishnabee

  • [58] ilokand

  • [59] assyrian

  • [60] danish

  • [61] laotian

  • [62] finnish

  • [63] mohawk

  • [64] amharic

  • [65] bangladesh

  • [66] oriya

  • [67] hawaiian

  • [69] hmong

  • [70] indonesian

  • [71] swahili

  • [72] telugu

  • [73] kannada

  • [74] bulgarian

  • [75] guarani

  • [76] bosnian

  • [77] punjabi

  • [78] latavain

  • [79] basque

  • [80] bicol

  • [81] croatian

  • [82] tigan gypsy

  • [83] slovenian

  • [84] belgian

  • [85] mandingo

  • [86] jamaca

  • [87] somali

  • [88] native amerian

  • [89] tagringa

  • [90] krio

  • [91] indian

  • [92] cebuano

  • [93] macedonian

  • [94] patois

  • [95] pangasinan

  • [96] ilocano

  • [97] marathi

  • [98] kashmiri/cashmiri

  • [99] tamil

  • [NA(d)] don't know [NA(i)] iap [NA(j)] I don't have a job [NA(m)] dk, na, iap [NA(n)] no answer [NA(p)] not imputable [NA(r)] refused [NA(s)] skipped on web [NA(u)] uncodeable [NA(x)] not available in this release [NA(y)] not available in this year [NA(z)] see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

ballotsyears
A/B/C2000

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for othbest.

Counts by year:

yeariapspanishpolishfrenchhebrewrussianchineseitaliangermanhungarianarabicfarsi-persianserbianslovakportuguesecreolevietnamesehindusign languagetonganarmenianibodutchcherokeepatoispangasinantamilnot available in this yearTotal
200027282811511347131121111311211125-2817
Total2728281151134713112111131121112502817

See also

Other Multi-Ethnic United States: contjpn, contmslm, getlang, othlang, othlang1, othlang2, parlang, spklang, uselang

Other Language: getlang, othlang, othlang1, othlang2, parlang, spklang, uselang