| Language | 2001 | 2002 |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian |
89 |
101 |
|
Arabic |
7,529 |
7,834 |
|
Armenian |
11,753 |
12,218 |
|
Assyrian |
1,191 |
1,153 |
| Burmese |
499 |
535 |
| Cantonese |
30,852 |
31,866 |
| Cebuano/Visayan |
612 |
620 |
| Chaldean |
189 |
224 |
|
Chamorro/Guamanian |
104 |
87 |
|
Chaozhou/Chaochow |
950 |
932 |
|
Croatian |
350 |
308 |
|
Dutch |
478 |
481 |
| Farsi/Persian |
12,186 |
12,077 |
| French |
1,915 |
1,964 |
| German |
1,987 |
2,024 |
| Greek |
713 |
704 |
|
Gujarati |
2,782 |
2,852 |
|
Hebrew |
2,158 |
2,134 |
|
Hindi |
5,341 |
5,347 |
|
Hmong |
6,746 |
7,003 |
| Hungarian |
479 |
439 |
| Ilocano |
2,174 |
2,068 |
| Indonesian |
1,235 |
1,338 |
| Italian |
926 |
863 |
|
Japanese |
5,640 |
5,791 |
|
Khmer/Cambodian |
12,187 |
10,172 |
|
Khmu |
168 |
193 |
|
Korean |
27,145 |
27,806 |
| Kurdish |
75 |
83 |
| Lahu |
54 |
36 |
| Lao |
4,528 |
4,386 |
| Mandarin/Putonghua |
26,710 |
28,523 |
|
Marshallese |
49 |
47 |
|
Mien |
1,607 |
1,667 |
|
Mixteco |
15 |
13 |
| Pashto |
526 |
505 |
| Pilipino/Tagalog |
37,609 |
36,403 |
| Polish |
971 |
995 |
| Portuguese |
3,339 |
3,374 |
|
Punjabi |
6,265 |
6,464 |
|
Rumanian |
1,664 |
1,617 |
|
Russian |
7,676 |
8,526 |
|
Samoan |
1,499 |
1,412 |
| Serbo-Croatian |
367 |
372 |
| Spanish |
549,017 |
578,347 |
| Taiwanese |
926 |
979 |
|
Thai |
2,223 |
2,186 |
| Tigrinya* |
364 |
303 |
|
Toishanese |
78 |
79 |
|
Tongan |
1,052 |
1,257 |
| Turkish |
339 |
327 |
| Ukrainian |
719 |
888 |
| Urdu |
3,095 |
3,206 |
| Vietnamese |
35,956 |
36,769 |
|
Other non-English languages |
19,286 |
20,096 |
|
State Totals |
844,387 |
878,139 |
Source:
Language Census, Spring
Educational Demographics Office
California Department of Education
