Also see:
-- City of Los Angeles Languages & Ability to Speak English - 2010 Census
-- City of Los Angeles Languages & Ability to Speak English - 2000 Census
| Language | Total Speakers | Speak English "very well" | Speak English less than "very well" |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 3,650,704 | 2,732,492 | 918,212 |
| Speak only English | 1,577,123 | 1,577,123 | --- |
| Latin (Romance) & Southern European Languages | |||
| Spanish | 1,462,335 | 789,869 | 672,466 |
| French (incl. Cajun) | 19,800 | 17,554 | 2,246 |
| Haitian | 1,579 | 1,141 | 438 |
| Italian | 7,595 | 6,639 | 956 |
| Portuguese | 5,248 | 3,988 | 1,260 |
| Greek | 9,960 | 8,952 | 1,008 |
| Northern European Languages | |||
| German | 2,536 | 2,347 | 189 |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages (including Scandanavian) | 1,752 | 1,514 | 238 |
| Language | Total Speakers | Speak English "very well" | Speak English less than "very well" |
| Slavic Languages & Hungarian | |||
| Russian | 39,649 | 24,072 | 15,577 |
| Polish | 2,050 | 1,815 | 235 |
| Serbo-Croatian | 4,115 | 2,943 | 1,172 |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages | 2,868 | 2,324 | 544 |
| Indic & Other Indo-European Languages | |||
| Armenian | 88,217 | 48,481 | 39,736 |
| Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari) | 47,561 | 25,962 | 21,599 |
| Gujarati | 2,681 | 1,302 | 1,379 |
| Hindi | 9,284 | 7,724 | 1,560 |
| Urdu | 4,199 | 3,277 | 922 |
| Punjabi | 4,115 | 2,493 | 1,622 |
| Bengali | 6,520 | 3,265 | 3,255 |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages | 4,283 | 2,897 | 1,386 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 7,472 | 6,271 | 1,201 |
| Language | Total Speakers | Speak English "very well" | Speak English less than "very well" |
| Asian Languages | |||
| Telugu | 2,648 | 2,504 | 144 |
| Tamil | 1,036 | 898 | 138 |
| Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages | 1,369 | 1,075 | 294 |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) | 56,257 | 30,027 | 26,230 |
| Japanese | 17,908 | 9,242 | 8,666 |
| Korean | 82,778 | 34,020 | 48,758 |
| Hmong | 147 | 37 | 110 |
| Vietnamese | 16,699 | 6,400 | 10,299 |
| Khmer | 2,133 | 1,112 | 1,021 |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages | 7,255 | 2,665 | 4,590 |
| Other languages of Asia | 6,003 | 2,848 | 3,155 |
| Language | Total Speakers | Speak English "very well" | Speak English less than "very well" |
| Pacific Islander Languages | |||
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino) | 84,882 | 56,974 | 27,908 |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages | 8,624 | 5,758 | 2,866 |
| Arabic, Hebrew, African, Native North American & Other Languages | |||
| Arabic | 14,724 | 9,101 | 5,623 |
| Hebrew | 17,796 | 14,048 | 3,748 |
| Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages | 4,414 | 2,863 | 1,551 |
| Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa | 4,587 | 3,343 | 1,244 |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa | 1,892 | 1,485 | 407 |
| Navajo | 268 | 268 | 0 |
| Other Native languages of North America | 511 | 421 | 90 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 7,831 | 5,450 | 2,381 |
* Annual estimate from data and surveys collected over a one-year period by the U.S. Census American Community Survey for 2021.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
