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Old 08-13-2012, 09:29 AM
 
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After English and Spanish, would the most common language spoken be Polish?
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Old 08-13-2012, 10:08 AM
 
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After English and Spanish, would the most common language spoken be Polish?
Yep. I don't have a source to cite, but I can't possibly imagine it being anything else.
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Old 08-13-2012, 12:01 PM
 
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Yep. I don't have a source to cite, but I can't possibly imagine it being anything else.
Probably but I would think Chinese would be a contender.
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Old 08-13-2012, 12:20 PM
 
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Probably but I would think Chinese would be a contender.
Yeah, good call. If I had to guess I'd put Polish 3rd, Chinese 4th, and Italian, Korean, Russian, and German (not necessarily in that order) after that. I did some googling but couldn't find any well-cited results.
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Old 08-13-2012, 01:02 PM
 
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There's was a recent university journal-article published (not sure how to link the page) which includes a ranking of spoken languages, but you are right on the spot on in terms of ranking. If regarding foreign languages, then Chinese Cantonese would be the 3rd most spoken foreign language, but if you're including English as just spoken language, then Polish would be the 3rd most spoken language.
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Old 08-13-2012, 02:09 PM
 
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Looks like Chinese might be larger https://data.cityofchicago.org/Healt...2010/a2fk-ec6q. I work for Cook County occasionally and I know that they have had to translate things into Chinese and Hindi now. They do that after there is a certain amount of english illiterate other language speakers, once their pop hits a certain percentage.
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Old 08-13-2012, 04:34 PM
 
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Looks like Chinese might be larger https://data.cityofchicago.org/Healt...2010/a2fk-ec6q.
Could be, but you can't really tell from that data. I'd still bet on Polish being #3 and Chinese #4. (I'm considering both Mandarin and Cantonese to be "Chinese". If you split them up as separate languages, which they essentially are, there's even less of a chance that either would rank ahead of Polish.)
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Old 08-13-2012, 06:09 PM
 
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC
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Looks like Chinese might be larger https://data.cityofchicago.org/Healt...2010/a2fk-ec6q. I work for Cook County occasionally and I know that they have had to translate things into Chinese and Hindi now. They do that after there is a certain amount of english illiterate other language speakers, once their pop hits a certain percentage.
According to that very data, there's 22,383 Chinese speakers while there's 35,657 Polish speakers. Funny how they're missing a few languages like Turkish though.
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Old 08-14-2012, 01:58 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Ok looks like Polish is still larger thx for adding up those neighborhoods! I think more Poles speak English as well though so thats why we have English, Spanish, Chinese, and now Hindi translations at the polls, only those 4 languages are required.
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Old 08-14-2012, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC
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thx for adding up those neighborhoods!
I didn't add them up. There's actually a "Chicago" neighborhood in that dataset which has everything added up already.
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