Chinese Tops America's Non-English Language Map After Spanish

After removing English and Spanish, Chinese is the most-spoken language in 13 states (notably California and New York), German maintains a historic footprint in the Plains and Mountain West, and regional clusters emerge—from French in the Northeast and D.C. to Vietnamese across the South and Plains, Portuguese in New England, Navajo in the Southwest, and Indigenous languages prominent in Alaska and the Dakotas.