Also see:
-- City of Los Angeles Languages & Ability to Speak English - 2010 Census
-- City of Los Angeles Languages & Ability to Speak English - 2000 Census
-- Most Recent Census Language Estimates by City of Los Angeles Neighborhoods
-- Language Spoken at Home by City/Community - Los Angeles County
| Language | Estimated Speakers | Speak English "Very Well" | Speak English Less Than "Very Well" |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 3,631,617 | 2,715,282 | 916,335 |
| Speak only English | 1,596,692 | --- | --- |
| Latin (Romance) & Southern European Languages | |||
| Spanish | 1,431,378 | 763,182 | 668,196 |
| French (incl. Cajun) | 18,601 | 16,285 | 2,316 |
| Haitian | 1,618 | 1,334 | 284 |
| Italian | 7,115 | 5,742 | 1,373 |
| Portuguese | 6,485 | 5,459 | 1,026 |
| Greek | 1,213 | 1,068 | 145 |
| Language | Estimated Speakers | Speak English "Very Well" | Speak English Less Than "Very Well" |
| Northern European Languages | |||
| German | 8,251 | 8,140 | 111 |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages (including Scandanavian) | 2,742 | 2,361 | 381 |
| Slavic Languages & Hungarian | |||
| Russian | 34,771 | 17,543 | 17,228 |
| Polish | 1,636 | 1,365 | 271 |
| Serbo-Croatian | 3,865 | 3,098 | 767 |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages | 3,749 | 1,842 | 1,907 |
| Language | Estimated Speakers | Speak English "Very Well" | Speak English Less Than "Very Well" |
| Indic & Other Indo-European Languages | |||
| Armenian | 75,061 | 43,194 | 31,867 |
| Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari) | 54,821 | 30,326 | 24,495 |
| Gujarati | 1,149 | 802 | 347 |
| Hindi | 9,020 | 7,124 | 1,896 |
| Urdu | 2,909 | 1,911 | 998 |
| Punjabi | 4,026 | 2,669 | 1,357 |
| Bengali | 8,590 | 5,111 | 3,479 |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages | 2,555 | 2,139 | 416 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 6,036 | 4,076 | 1,960 |
| Language | Estimated Speakers | Speak English "Very Well" | Speak English Less Than "Very Well" |
| Asian Languages | |||
| Telugu | 1,457 | 1,457 | 0 |
| Tamil | 2,030 | 1,822 | 208 |
| Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages | 2,094 | 1,417 | 677 |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) | 63,894 | 35,059 | 28,835 |
| Japanese | 12,906 | 7,315 | 5,591 |
| Korean | 90,329 | 34,228 | 56,101 |
| Hmong | 445 | 445 | 0 |
| Vietnamese | 18,120 | 7,998 | 10,122 |
| Khmer | 2,556 | 751 | 1,805 |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages | 9,113 | 3,783 | 5,330 |
| Other languages of Asia | 7,166 | 4,440 | 2,726 |
| Language | Estimated Speakers | Speak English "Very Well" | Speak English Less Than "Very Well" |
| Pacific Islander Languages | |||
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino) | 79,089 | 51,210 | 27,879 |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages | 8,026 | 5,008 | 3,018 |
| Arabic, Hebrew, African, Native North American & Other Languages | |||
| Arabic | 18,164 | 14,123 | 4,041 |
| Hebrew | 16,574 | 12,774 | 3,800 |
| Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages | 5,570 | 3,883 | 1,687 |
| Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa | 4,106 | 3,789 | 317 |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa | 2,281 | 1,717 | 564 |
| Navajo | 114 | 114 | 0 |
| Other Native languages of North America | 360 | 259 | 101 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 4,940 | 2,227 | 2,713 |
* Annual estimate from data and surveys collected over a one-year period by the U.S. Census American Community Survey for 2022.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
