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Language Spoken at Home
Persons 5 Years of Age and Older
Los Angeles County, 1990 Census
2000 Census
| Language Spoken |
Number of Speakers |
Percent of Total
Population |
| Only English |
4,440,633 |
54.58 |
| Spanish |
2,564,775 |
31.53 |
| French |
40,921 |
0.50 |
| Italian |
28,454 |
0.35 |
| Portuguese |
8,717 |
0.11 |
| German |
39,849 |
0.49 |
| Yiddish |
8,687 |
0.11 |
| Other West Germanic |
10,834 |
0.13 |
| Scandinavian |
7,190 |
0.09 |
| Polish |
10,096 |
0.12 |
| Russian |
19,991 |
0.25 |
| South Slavic |
8,836 |
0.11 |
| Other Slavic |
4,714 |
0.06 |
| Greek |
10,166 |
0.12 |
| Indic |
34,254 |
0.42 |
| Other Indo-European |
147,903 |
1.82 |
| Chinese |
209,107 |
2.57 |
| Japanese |
63,921 |
0.79 |
| Mon-Khmer |
23,900 |
0.29 |
| Korean |
124,290 |
1.53 |
| Tagalog |
155,996 |
1.92 |
| Vietnamese |
51,313 |
0.63 |
| Arabic |
29,039 |
0.36 |
| Hungarian |
10,342 |
0.13 |
| Native North American |
1,594 |
0.02 |
| Other |
79,879 |
0.98 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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