Hindi is the most spoken Indian language in USA, followed by Gujarati and Telugu

Hindi language maintains to be the most extensively spoken Indian language in the US, followed by Gujarati and Telugu. However, the number of Telugu speaking individuals has risen the most by 86%. if the figures of 2017 are compared to figures of 2010.

According to recently released American Community Survey (ACS) data by USA census Bureau for 2017 which measures the USA population as of July 2017 shows that just about 21.8% of residents in USA aged over 5 spoke a language apart from English. Among 21.8% including native-born, legal and illegitimate immigrants.

In the Financial Year 2016, with 6.5 large Crore out of the whole population of 30.3 Crore speaking a remote language, the proportion was marginally lower at 20.6% . Hindi had total 8.63 lakh of speakers within the USA, preceded by Gujarati (4.34 lakh) and Telugu (4.15 lakh).

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an anti-immigration thinktank, has figured out this information, specifically comparing the statistics of 2017 with 2010. According to the report a seven-year amount from 2010, the quantity of Telugu speakers has up mountingly by eighty-six percent. The equivalent rise as regards Hindi and Gujarati speakers was simply forty second and twenty second severally.

A leading English daily reported on September 17, that 26.10 lakh of the USA population was born in India . But this figure did not include those that were born in USA from Indian parents. As per the study, a minimum of thirty-three percent of the Indians within the USA speaks Hindi, nearly 17 percent speak Gujarati and Telugu. CIS reports moreover said that overall figure of those who speak a remote language has quite doubled since 1990 and nearly tripled since 1980.

As claimed by the CIS, in America’s 5 largest cities, forty-eight percent of the residents speak a language other than English. For example, in Los Angeles (LA) fifty nine percent, in New York and Houston it marks at forty-nine percent .

However, people from countries apart from India jointly speak these 2 languages (Such as mainly those from Bangladesh for Bengali. Tamil is also widely spoken in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia).

As Urdu and Punjabi speaking people within the USA are said to belong primarily from Pakistan. Some Immigration specialists said that reasons for the rise of the Telugu speaking population is that several workers are engaged in the technology sector, that may be a major employer of H-1B visa holders, came from Andhra Pradesh.