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Hutterite communities are responsible for a good chunk of the German spoken in the Upper Midwest into the Pacific Northwest.
The lack of more prevalent use of Chinese is due to the generations older immigration from there. 4th, 5th, etc, generation Americans of Chinese ancestry are a lot less likely to speak their ancestral language than a 1st or 2nd generation American of Vietnamese ancestry.
Oregon got Russian in part due to Russian immigrants but also due to the Russian Old Believer communities down by Woodburn(similar to Russian Amish).
Also if you scroll down to the other maps, the results are pretty interesting. Like on the most spoken Indo-Aryan language map, Montana and North Dakota get Nepali and Wyoming gets Gujarati unlike most of the Hindi-dominated West(and most of the country. While New York is the only state where the most spoken Indian language is Bengali.
Also if you scroll down to the other maps, the results are pretty interesting. Like on the most spoken Indo-Aryan language map, Montana and North Dakota get Nepali and Wyoming gets Gujarati unlike most of the Hindi-dominated West(and most of the country. While New York is the only state where the most spoken Indian language is Bengali.
Yea, the Gujaratis in the NYC metro area are mostly in New Jersey and the state map shows it. NYC [where most of the state's Indian population is, though there's some in neighboring Nassau County] has a large Bangladeshi (Bengali speaking) population. Gujaratis tend to own small businesses (convenience stores, motels) more than most Indian groups, I suspect that's Gujaratis are the#1 Indian ethnicity as there's probably not much else of an Indian population otherwise.
As someone from a small touristy town in Pennsylvania said: there's Muslim immigrants here, they own the gas stations; Indian immigrants own the motels. Didn't sound like there were other Muslim/Indian immigrants that were there for other reasons.
The lack of more prevalent use of Chinese is due to the generations older immigration from there. 4th, 5th, etc, generation Americans of Chinese ancestry are a lot less likely to speak their ancestral language than a 1st or 2nd generation American of Vietnamese ancestry.
I think it's also related to the fact that "Chinese" isn't a single language; someone from China could be a speaker of Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, standard Mandarin, etc. I don't know how the US Census Bureau counts it, but the use of Chinese languages is extremely common, at least here in SF.
I think it's also related to the fact that "Chinese" isn't a single language; someone from China could be a speaker of Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, standard Mandarin, etc. I don't know how the US Census Bureau counts it, but the use of Chinese languages is extremely common, at least here in SF.
I suspect they combined them into one category for these maps based on the labels used. I am sure Chinese is common in the SF area, but so is Vietnamese, especially in Santa Clara County. According to this map, Tagalog beats them both statewide.
Pennsylvania Dutch should be very high in the state of PA.
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