Languages spoken in Pittsburgh, PA

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 Pittsburgh [PA]

Table showing languages spoken in Pittsburgh, PA

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	55	65	55	65
Afrikaans	55	62	(D)	(D)
Albanian	180	146	80	98
Algonquian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Amharic	100	74	25	28
Apache	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bantu	650	279	185	159
Bengali	800	235	200	119
Berber	80	77	(D)	(D)
Bielorussian	15	31	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	280	123	45	34
Burmese	150	109	125	103
Cantonese	360	153	150	91
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chadic	75	88	20	36
Chamorro	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cherokee	65	33	(B)	-
Cheyenne	15	18	(B)	-
Chinese	8,125	690	4,085	520
Croatian	865	247	220	130
Crow	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cushite	40	65	30	49
Czech	335	119	55	43
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	45	40	(B)	-
Dutch	370	126	35	40
Efik	20	28	(D)	(D)
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	105	60	60	43
French	6,215	604	1,440	259
Fuchow	15	19	(B)	-
Fulani	35	39	20	33
German	7,990	604	1,205	163
Hidatsa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Icelandic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Ilocano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
India nec3	490	260	165	166
Indonesian	535	289	(D)	(D)
Irish Gaelic	75	44	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	45	40	(D)	(D)
Kachin	30	33	(D)	(D)
Kannada	300	148	65	57
Karen	690	518	685	520
Kazakh	85	84	50	63
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	470	168	90	76
Latvian	35	33	(B)	-
Lithuanian	340	162	145	103
Macedonian	20	18	(B)	-
Malay	120	99	(B)	-
Malayalam	475	196	150	119
Mandarin	1,605	235	555	182
Mande	125	129	(D)	(D)
Maori	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Marathi	580	249	(D)	(D)
Melanesian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mokilese	15	27	(D)	(D)
Mongolian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	1,485	507	1,150	480
Norwegian	125	74	(D)	(D)
Oriya	70	78	(B)	-
Oto - Manguen	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Pakistan nec3	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	300	164	85	60
Pashto	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Patois	160	92	(D)	(D)
Pennsylvania Dutch	625	208	210	108
Portuguese	1,090	292	190	122
Romanian	320	165	80	60
Samoan	30	34	(D)	(D)
Scottic Gaelic	60	59	(B)	-
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbian	720	179	200	99
Serbocroatian	940	314	375	165
Sindhi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sinhalese	110	106	(D)	(D)
Slovak	1,495	237	240	72
Slovene	130	52	60	40
Spanish	25,650	1,118	6,595	631
Swahili	280	147	100	96
Swedish	125	62	(D)	(D)
Tamil	1,370	308	290	160
Telugu	1,985	573	655	423
Turkish	1,170	382	535	260
Uighur	25	41	(D)	(D)
Ukrainian	1,100	340	370	136
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Welsh	55	53	(D)	(D)
Wyandot	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	1,934	425	572	243
Arabic	3,353	688	1,239	418
Armenian	90	95	29	34
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	10,215	734	4,850	601
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	6,374	619	1,447	262
French Creole	325	172	49	41
German (incl Luxembourgian)	7,988	604	1,203	163
Greek	3,014	493	773	198
Gujarati	1,735	549	893	418
Hebrew	801	209	100	65
Hindi	3,556	541	679	181
Hungarian	907	221	144	83
Italian	9,871	694	2,949	421
Japanese	1,620	303	802	240
Korean	2,628	382	1,152	245
Laotian	38	38	(B)	-
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	207	126	105	71
Navajo	1	3	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	72	59	14	21
Other Asian languages	6,298	919	2,589	722
Other Indic languages	3,873	666	1,641	528
Other Indo-European languages	1,114	283	333	159
Other Native North American languages	135	50	4	9
Other Pacific Island languages	820	381	183	142
Other Slavic languages	3,375	417	776	166
Other West Germanic languages	1,053	274	254	112
Persian	782	260	203	106
Polish	2,669	354	488	138
Population 5 years and over	2,238,418	114	34,084	1,360
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,089	292	191	122
Russian	3,453	558	1,271	289
Scandinavian languages	314	118	31	33
Serbo-Croatian languages	2,526	392	793	247
Tagalog	1,344	322	330	163
Thai	361	120	192	90
Urdu	912	280	102	67
Vietnamese	2,076	575	1,081	355
Yiddish	378	193	28	33
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	7,203	859	2,073	481
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	25,607	1,208	11,284	1,005
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	54,491	1,741	14,133	896
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	25,648	1,118	6,594	631
Speak a language other than English at home	112,949	2,178	34,084	1,360
Speak only English at home	2,125,469	2,174	(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.