Saturday, November 19, 2011

Speaking in America

If you were ever curious about what languages were spoken where in the United States, the MLA has a very fun tool.

http://www.mla.org/resources/map_main

It's not super-super-super comprehensive, but there are enough languages and ways to slice and dice the info to keep you busy for awhile. They are using the US Census data, so it should be pretty thorough. Nosing into the map, I can see that there are somewhere between 100 and 500 Greek speakers (don't get excited, it's modern) in the county I live in. Polish speakers? Somewhere between 200 and 500 in my zip code. Crazy.