Languages spoken in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach [FL]

Table showing languages spoken in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

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	75	69	(B)	-
Afrikaans	1,040	292	170	139
Albanian	625	348	295	192
American Indian	60	59	(B)	-
Amharic	645	346	150	90
Arawakian	50	59	(B)	-
Azerbaijani	35	68	35	68
Bantu	75	64	(B)	-
Basque	10	67	(D)	(D)
Bengali	3,955	868	1,360	441
Bihari	160	249	160	249
Bisayan	85	67	50	47
Bulgarian	1,110	318	495	195
Burmese	595	288	285	186
Cajun	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Cantonese	3,460	949	1,985	593
Carolinian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Catalonian	140	125	60	53
Caucasian	70	66	(D)	(D)
Chadic	95	140	(B)	-
Chamorro	55	55	(B)	-
Cherokee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	15,615	1,461	8,640	1,060
Cree	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Croatian	725	275	125	78
Czech	1,300	303	535	206
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	725	238	40	39
Dravidian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	3,625	747	560	248
Efik	65	52	(B)	-
Estonian	420	326	170	126
Fijian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	1,805	395	685	233
Formosan	270	151	160	100
French	49,785	2,164	16,415	1,039
Fulani	125	149	(B)	-
German	14,840	988	2,630	435
Hawaiian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Icelandic	295	167	(D)	(D)
Ilocano	135	92	35	55
India nec3	500	277	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	430	181	220	119
Inupik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	240	127	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	1,320	363	355	172
Kannada	570	287	160	163
Kashmiri	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Krio	300	384	155	228
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	2,410	613	445	295
Kurdish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ladino	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Latvian	140	73	65	56
Lithuanian	580	214	300	135
Luxembourgian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Macedonian	455	232	160	112
Malagasy	30	54	(D)	(D)
Malay	115	94	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	3,325	656	1,210	390
Mandarin	2,735	588	1,295	368
Mande	90	109	(D)	(D)
Marathi	505	244	45	62
Marshallese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mayan languages	135	177	135	177
Mikasuki	175	113	20	31
Misumalpan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mongolian	125	118	(B)	-
Munda	260	234	(D)	(D)
Muskogee	110	66	10	11
Nepali	185	183	(D)	(D)
Norwegian	1,125	331	205	131
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Oto - Manguen	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Pakistan nec3	175	152	(B)	-
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	805	250	225	125
Papia Mentae	115	98	35	35
Pashto	60	86	35	61
Patois	4,065	654	520	191
Pennsylvania Dutch	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	49,275	2,687	19,095	1,564
Quechua	50	91	50	91
Romanian	5,295	969	1,880	481
Romany	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Samoan	140	119	(D)	(D)
Sebuano	195	160	35	45
Serbian	1,000	299	290	157
Serbocroatian	775	329	170	88
Sindhi	110	101	(D)	(D)
Sinhalese	155	98	40	33
Slovak	415	149	225	109
Slovene	120	83	40	50
Spanish	2,130,615	6,150	1,004,640	7,841
Swahili	350	239	80	85
Swedish	1,655	393	155	86
Tamil	1,420	366	210	134
Telugu	1,775	599	480	313
Tewa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Tupi-Guarani	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Turkish	4,160	778	1,535	594
Uighur	55	55	45	42
Ukrainian	895	290	285	191
Uncodable	120	89	(B)	-
Welsh	35	35	(B)	-
African languages	3,932	727	688	309
Arabic	13,391	1,414	3,349	636
Armenian	1,233	388	404	213
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	22,078	1,616	12,083	1,124
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	53,865	2,224	16,955	1,084
French Creole	262,932	6,699	129,002	4,013
German (incl Luxembourgian)	14,854	988	2,631	435
Greek	5,593	880	1,026	338
Gujarati	3,414	1,027	1,282	585
Hebrew	15,389	1,557	3,209	633
Hindi	6,176	964	1,418	404
Hmong	10	19	(B)	-
Hungarian	3,897	549	1,462	296
Italian	19,686	1,445	6,108	654
Japanese	2,713	672	1,183	359
Korean	3,810	755	1,826	408
Laotian	547	222	241	151
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	250	184	200	190
Navajo	6	11	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	2,701	537	1,090	332
Other Asian languages	12,321	1,199	4,019	833
Other Indic languages	6,623	1,117	2,010	555
Other Indo-European languages	8,742	1,184	3,145	665
Other Native North American languages	409	151	36	37
Other Pacific Island languages	1,280	329	443	160
Other Slavic languages	4,289	613	1,744	368
Other West Germanic languages	4,673	811	727	305
Persian	3,698	752	1,087	318
Polish	6,953	834	2,308	458
Population 5 years and over	5,344,820	181	1,246,298	10,272
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	49,394	2,685	19,131	1,560
Russian	15,583	1,623	7,510	953
Scandinavian languages	3,797	586	422	185
Serbo-Croatian languages	2,502	560	583	222
Tagalog	12,460	1,570	3,995	1,157
Thai	2,632	522	1,535	383
Urdu	8,184	1,304	2,002	423
Vietnamese	11,335	1,487	6,166	879
Yiddish	5,084	549	625	186
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	39,725	2,456	9,834	985
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	69,436	2,505	31,691	1,762
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	487,275	8,476	200,120	4,988
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	2,130,631	6,147	1,004,653	7,840
Speak a language other than English at home	2,727,067	9,888	1,246,298	10,272
Speak only English at home	2,617,753	9,886	(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.