Languages spoken in Portland-South Portland, ME

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 Portland-South Portland [ME]

Table showing languages spoken in Portland-South Portland, ME

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
Albanian	65	67	45	44
Amharic	215	187	90	82
Bantu	230	139	140	107
Bengali	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bisayan	40	36	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	100	81	(D)	(D)
Burmese	25	37	(D)	(D)
Cantonese	55	61	(D)	(D)
Catalonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Chadic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chamorro	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	970	332	640	248
Croatian	55	68	(D)	(D)
Cushite	1,485	346	830	246
Czech	105	86	20	20
Danish	15	14	(B)	-
Dutch	235	128	(D)	(D)
Finnish	35	41	(B)	-
Formosan	35	31	(D)	(D)
French	13,870	861	2,650	388
German	1,205	228	160	71
India nec3	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Inupik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	35	32	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Latvian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Lithuanian	25	29	(B)	-
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malayalam	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mandarin	160	84	40	49
Marathi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mbum (and related)	160	163	130	153
Micmac	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nilo-Hamitic	160	196	(D)	(D)
Nilotic	395	245	290	193
Norwegian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pashto	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Passamaquoddy	70	58	(D)	(D)
Patois	120	124	85	94
Pennsylvania Dutch	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	350	141	35	27
Romanian	75	60	65	55
Scottic Gaelic	35	46	(B)	-
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbian	135	81	65	53
Serbocroatian	40	35	(D)	(D)
Slovak	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Spanish	5,350	663	1,310	276
Sudanic	25	29	25	29
Swahili	55	48	(D)	(D)
Swedish	130	71	30	34
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tamil	55	65	(D)	(D)
Telugu	195	235	(D)	(D)
Turkish	230	263	130	147
Ukrainian	35	32	(D)	(D)
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	2,733	426	1,597	347
Arabic	803	379	379	260
Armenian	15	21	15	21
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	1,224	356	715	247
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	13,992	843	2,733	401
French Creole	55	33	(B)	-
German (incl Luxembourgian)	1,205	228	158	71
Greek	456	169	74	58
Gujarati	123	155	(B)	-
Hebrew	131	82	9	14
Hindi	254	158	(B)	-
Hungarian	11	14	(B)	-
Italian	602	167	55	41
Japanese	376	139	45	32
Korean	479	194	163	90
Laotian	73	82	16	22
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	912	392	576	239
Navajo	2	4	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	90	71	20	27
Other Asian languages	509	354	207	163
Other Indic languages	89	73	18	27
Other Indo-European languages	296	118	125	73
Other Native North American languages	82	61	3	5
Other Pacific Island languages	125	69	25	30
Other Slavic languages	267	135	70	48
Other West Germanic languages	239	128	22	21
Persian	562	269	231	134
Polish	437	165	122	87
Population 5 years and over	490,209	167	10,587	738
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	349	141	35	27
Russian	1,203	451	438	233
Scandinavian languages	156	73	30	34
Serbo-Croatian languages	226	114	106	76
Tagalog	751	287	389	199
Thai	125	82	58	61
Urdu	175	172	71	109
Vietnamese	1,509	423	766	273
Yiddish	39	44	8	13
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	3,852	581	2,008	428
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	6,083	539	2,960	308
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	20,740	1,051	4,311	502
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	5,350	663	1,308	276
Speak a language other than English at home	36,025	1,301	10,587	738
Speak only English at home	454,184	1,317	(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.