Language spoken at home by Montgomery County residents
2000
Language | Number |
Speak only English | 556,682 |
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Spanish or Spanish Creole | 93,760 |
Chinese | 24,394 |
French (including Patois, Cajun) | 15,121 |
Korean | 13,469 |
African Languages | 13,381 |
Vietnamese | 8,336 |
Persian | 8,116 |
Other Asian languages | 6,465 |
Other Indic languages | 6,234 |
Russian | 6,176 |
Hindi | 5,992 |
Tagalog | 5,099 |
German | 4,764 |
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole | 4,665 |
Arabic | 4,341 |
Greek | 3,832 |
Urdu | 3,310 |
Hebrew | 3,261 |
Italian | 3,046 |
Japanese | 2,609 |
French Creole | 2,442 |
Gujarati | 2,358 |
Other Indo-European languages | 2,304 |
Other Slavic languages | 1,686 |
Other Pacific Island languages | 1,661 |
Thai | 1,350 |
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian | 1,306 |
Armenian | 1,248 |
Polish | 1,175 |
Scandinavian languages | 1,084 |
Hungarian | 722 |
Other West German languages | 707 |
Serbo-Croatian | 649 |
Yiddish | 635 |
Other and unspecified languages | 433 |
Laotian | 414 |
Other Native North American languages | 186 |
Navajo | 39 |
TOTAL | 813,460 |
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census; Montgomery County Department of Park and Planning, Research and Technology Center. |