Languages spoken in Lafayette, LA

In October 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released the "2009-2013 American Community Survey" which provides information on "languages spoken at home" and "ability to speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over" for the United States as a whole, states including Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., selected counties, and selected cities and urban areas. The following provides aggregated survey information on languages spoken in Lafayette [LA]

Table showing languages spoken in Lafayette, LA

Population 5 years and over
Speak only English at home
Speak a language other than English at home
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

French (incl. Patois, Cajun)

French Creole

Italian

Portuguese (incl. Portuguese Creole)

German (incl. Luxembourgian)

Yiddish

Other West Germanic languages

Scandinavian languages

Greek

Russian

Polish

Serbo-Croatian languages

Other Slavic languages

Other Indic languages

Other Indo-European languages

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES

Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)

Other Asian languages

Tagalog

Other Pacific Island languages

ALL OTHER LANGUAGES

Navajo

Other Native North American languages

Other and unspecified languages

BY STATE
BY COUNTY
BY CITY

Language	Number of speakers	Margin of Error	Speak English less than "Very Well"	Margin of Error
American Indian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bantu	80	87	80	87
Bengali	30	34	20	30
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cajun	7,050	710	655	157
Cherokee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	615	297	420	272
Czech	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	75	106	(D)	(D)
French	37,745	1,366	5,670	526
German	615	227	(D)	(D)
India nec3	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kannada	50	82	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	250	241	(D)	(D)
Lithuanian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malayalam	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mandarin	70	69	(B)	-
Marathi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Omaha	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	80	107	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	350	263	125	151
Romanian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	185	241	(D)	(D)
Sinhalese	45	66	45	66
Slovak	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	12,045	685	5,785	542
Tamil	35	39	(D)	(D)
Telugu	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ukrainian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
African languages	329	263	96	96
Arabic	697	325	185	102
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	758	330	448	274
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	44,794	1,488	6,324	564
French Creole	3,190	502	241	123
German (incl Luxembourgian)	615	227	33	37
Gujarati	9	15	(B)	-
Hebrew	13	21	13	21
Hindi	370	247	15	20
Italian	139	107	1	5
Japanese	187	98	74	48
Korean	230	133	93	91
Laotian	1,284	285	728	206
Other and unspecified languages	6	10	(B)	-
Other Asian languages	136	104	6	11
Other Indic languages	201	129	132	101
Other Indo-European languages	48	56	13	22
Other Native North American languages	51	68	(B)	-
Other Pacific Island languages	52	64	(B)	-
Other Slavic languages	45	42	10	16
Persian	177	160	100	117
Polish	61	54	(B)	-
Population 5 years and over	437,307	238	16,138	908
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	352	263	127	151
Russian	18	18	(B)	-
Scandinavian languages	16	27	(B)	-
Serbo-Croatian languages	183	241	68	104
Tagalog	231	136	27	31
Thai	29	32	17	28
Urdu	45	66	(B)	-
Vietnamese	2,234	451	1,602	406
Yiddish	9	14	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	1,096	442	294	142
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	5,141	478	2,995	467
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	50,272	1,489	7,064	615
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	12,046	685	5,785	542
Speak a language other than English at home	68,555	1,837	16,138	908
Speak only English at home	368,752	1,854	(X)	(X)

Notes

Number of speakers and Speak English less than "Very Well": Detailed-language estimates are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Aggregate estimates ("language category" and "language sub-category" entries) are unrounded and appear in table B16001. Detailed-language estimates may not sum to aggregate estimates because of rounding.
Margin of Error and Margin of Error: Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data. The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.
(D): Data withheld to avoid disclosure.
(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.
3 N.E.C. stands for not elsewhere classified. These are languages where respondents indicated they spoke either Indian or Pakistan. For Indian, it cannot be determined if the respondent spoke a native American language or spoke a language from India. For Pakistan, respondents wrote in Pakistan but it cannot be determined which one of the languages spoken in Pakistan is actually being spoken. To distinguish these languages, n.e.c. is used to indicated they are not classified in any other language code.
This category includes literal write-ins of Chinese as well as Hakka, Kan, Hsiang, Cantonese, Mandarin, Fuchow, Formosan, and Wu.