Languages spoken in Memphis, TN-MS-AR

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 Memphis [TN-MS-AR]

Table showing languages spoken in Memphis, TN-MS-AR

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
African	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Afrikaans	180	184	(B)	-
Amharic	875	512	435	335
Balinese	70	106	70	106
Bantu	385	329	310	299
Bengali	670	297	200	99
Bisayan	35	39	(D)	(D)
Blackfoot	35	64	(B)	-
Bulgarian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Burmese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cantonese	180	127	80	80
Chadic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cherokee	10	17	(D)	(D)
Chinese	3,135	608	1,455	372
Choctaw	40	57	(D)	(D)
Croatian	30	32	(B)	-
Cushite	380	274	105	66
Czech	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Danish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	195	108	(B)	-
Formosan	50	51	(D)	(D)
French	2,930	521	690	275
French Cree	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Fulani	760	367	525	287
German	1,725	347	125	67
Hawaiian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
India nec3	170	144	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	30	42	30	42
Irish Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	45	59	(B)	-
Kannada	210	129	40	40
Krio	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	405	191	110	81
Kurdish	140	183	(D)	(D)
Latvian	30	27	(B)	-
Lithuanian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	35	37	(B)	-
Mandarin	560	245	305	205
Mande	100	90	(D)	(D)
Marathi	140	108	(B)	-
Mayan languages	105	123	(D)	(D)
Mohawk	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	80	71	(D)	(D)
Nilotic	65	73	(D)	(D)
Norwegian	45	44	(B)	-
Pampangan	30	46	(B)	-
Panjabi	305	130	80	51
Pennsylvania Dutch	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	520	206	130	71
Romanian	65	81	(D)	(D)
Samoan	20	28	(B)	-
Sebuano	20	24	(B)	-
Serbian	160	141	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	155	169	55	59
Sinhalese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Spanish	54,705	1,532	26,445	1,168
Swahili	530	270	140	140
Swedish	65	41	(D)	(D)
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tamil	585	239	125	89
Telugu	995	391	265	166
Tibetan	70	70	(B)	-
Trukese	105	125	(D)	(D)
Turkish	65	55	(D)	(D)
Ukrainian	50	50	(D)	(D)
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	3,601	872	1,662	613
Arabic	3,998	1,004	1,312	354
Armenian	68	102	30	45
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	3,926	669	1,857	427
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	2,930	521	688	275
French Creole	152	84	52	59
German (incl Luxembourgian)	1,726	347	123	67
Greek	266	129	43	34
Gujarati	806	274	274	146
Hebrew	271	172	36	60
Hindi	1,030	349	130	92
Hmong	90	73	33	32
Hungarian	88	73	26	28
Italian	313	132	47	32
Japanese	648	243	211	106
Korean	2,254	602	1,172	345
Laotian	656	288	329	165
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	370	281	204	146
Other and unspecified languages	140	133	49	58
Other Asian languages	1,992	460	472	181
Other Indic languages	1,391	357	426	157
Other Indo-European languages	302	209	57	69
Other Native North American languages	158	138	83	106
Other Pacific Island languages	360	198	173	151
Other Slavic languages	78	55	28	37
Other West Germanic languages	388	233	(B)	-
Persian	285	167	83	59
Polish	274	125	65	62
Population 5 years and over	1,237,407	117	39,931	1,597
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	520	206	128	71
Russian	670	225	194	97
Scandinavian languages	125	66	12	18
Serbo-Croatian languages	342	221	67	63
Tagalog	1,722	407	599	260
Thai	117	62	71	48
Urdu	678	432	49	55
Vietnamese	4,290	929	2,701	641
Yiddish	22	34	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	8,256	1,249	3,168	731
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	16,425	986	7,822	723
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	12,366	1,022	2,496	480
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	54,703	1,532	26,445	1,168
Speak a language other than English at home	91,750	1,897	39,931	1,597
Speak only English at home	1,145,657	1,897	(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.