English only -- 237.8 million Spanish -- 40.5 million Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) -- 3.4 million Tagalog (including Filipino) -- 1.7 million Vietnamese -- 1.5 million Arabic -- 1.2 million French -- 1.2 million Korean -- 1.1 million Russian -- 0.91 million German -- 0.91 million Haitian Creole -- 0.86 million Hindi -- 0.81 million Portuguese -- 0.77 million Italian -- 0.58 million Polish -- 0.54 million Urdu -- 0.47 million Japanese -- 0.46 million Persian (including Farsi and Dari) -- 0.44 million Gujarati -- 0.41 million Telugu -- 0.37 million Bengali -- 0.32 million Tai -- Kadai (including Thai and Lao) -- 0.31 million Greek -- 0.29 million Punjabi -- 0.29 million Tamil -- 0.27 million Armenian -- 0.24 million Serbo - Croatian (including Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian) -- 0.24 million Hebrew -- 0.23 million Hmong -- 0.22 million Bantu (including Swahili) -- 0.22 million Khmer -- 0.20 million Navajo -- 0.16 million
what are the top 5 languages spoken in the us
English Spanish Chinese Tagalog Vietnamese