English Learners by Language 1993 to 2000

Albanian*

86

26

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Arabic

6,564

6,077

5,900

5,642

5,287

5,087

4,968

4,748

Armenian

12,155

12,726

13,584

14,088

14,572

15,106

15,459

15,156

Assyrian

685

696

761

773

835

873

811

815

Burmese

566

526

498

366

376

372

330

269

Cantonese

25,509

25,556

25,360

25,714

24,674

23,954

23,728

22,772

Cebuano (Visayan)

452

307

383

400

399

284

397

338

Chaldean

532

481

518

536

547

529

0

0

Chamorro (Guamanian)

47

50

53

53

54

71

77

44

Chaozhou (Chaochow)

753

756

755

783

747

670

0

0

Croatian

452

419

284

163

221

157

153

108

Dutch

158

144

121

119

91

107

98

86

Farsi (Persian)

4,840

4,985

5,028

5,246

5,328

5,591

5,876

5,874

French

860

781

687

589

600

607

562

548

German

864

799

755

633

636

661

600

596

Greek

250

228

214

212

218

242

235

239

Gujarati

1,094

1,136

1,148

1,125

1,121

1,135

1,196

1,089

Hebrew

603

620

635

553

580

685

834

976

Hindi

4,294

4,101

3,964

3,822

3,591

3,493

3,289

2,972

Hmong

28,374

29,474

30,551

32,014

31,156

30,345

28,494

26,219

Hungarian

173

197

208

184

194

213

232

208

Ilocano

1,663

1,724

1,753

1,956

1,912

1,899

1,894

1,634

Indonesian

1,107

1,021

863

810

969

989

1,024

875

Italian

312

288

281

267

291

303

328

275

Japanese

4,927

4,969

4,967

4,970

5,042

4,998

5,231

5,499

Khmer (Cambodian)

16,283

17,637

18,694

19,981

20,645

21,028

21,467

21,040

Khmu

207

251

253

261

233

359

305

332

Korean

16,279

15,761

15,521

15,884

15,792

15,879

16,366

16,496

Kurdish

340

318

285

148

111

115

0

0

Lahu

435

529

492

509

521

532

433

440

Lao

6,901

7,703

8,343

9,212

10,052

10,745

11,392

11,926

Mandarin (Putonghua)

10,102

10,388

10,380

10,397

9,655

9,109

9,178

9,123

Marshallese

144

122

123

132

100

82

66

60

Mien/Yao

4,594

4,930

5,192

5,385

5,226

5,093

4,976

4,691

Mixteco

388

363

349

353

342

321

294

222

Native American

N/A

N/A

71

76

55

66

141

117

Pashto

603

580

566

511

541

529

479

462

Pilipino (Tagalog)

18,193

19,041

20,062

20,844

20,950

21,765

21,362

20,755

Polish

388

399

411

426

491

511

593

529

Portuguese

2,248

2,299

2,207

2,492

2,496

2,677

2,807

2,870

Punjabi

7,906

7,762

7,323

6,491

5,522

5,063

4,348

3,880

Rumanian

1,261

1,309

1,394

1,426

1,423

1,440

1,550

1,415

Russian

8,029

8,143

7,598

7,328

7,028

6,675

6,276

5,586

Samoan

1,758

1,667

1,780

1,912

1,997

2,000

1,940

1,840

Serbian

118

104

103

79

84

71

123

88

Serbo-Croatian

150

201

196

146

111

95

0

0

Spanish

1,222,809

1,181,553

1,140,197

1,107,186

1,051,125

990,801

943,559

887,757

Taiwanese

369

399

455

506

551

596

717

807

Thai

1,575

1,613

1,670

1,535

1,709

1,708

1,708

1,641

Tigrinya*

344

195

Toishanese

112

64

58

60

90

66

0

0

Tongan

1,926

1,963

1,877

1,823

1,711

1,617

1,446

1,355

Turkish

227

188

198

166

180

146

136

101

Ukrainian

2,117

1,942

1,570

1,345

1,080

885

771

0

Urdu

2,327

2,023

1,851

1,585

1,509

1,472

1,388

1,291

Vietnamese

39,447

41,456

43,008

45,530

47,663

48,907

49,788

48,890

Other languages of China

N/A

N/A

4,827

5,016

4,981

4,848

5,480

5,513

Other Philippine languages

N/A

N/A

1,191

1,386

1,486

1,474

1,479

1,259

Other non-English languages

15,627

13,702

8,650

10,244

8,866

7,936

8,834

9,993

State Total

1,480,527

1,442,692

1,406,166

1,381,393

1,323,767

1,262,982

1,215,218

1,151,819