Arabic language in the United States

The Arabic language is the fastest-growing foreign language taught at U.S. colleges and universities, a trend mirrored at the University of Iowa.[7]

A bilingual (English, Arabic) sign at the Detroit People Mover Grand Circus Park station

Arabic speakers in the US
Year	Speakers
1910^a	32,868
1920^a	57,557
1930^a	67,830
1940^a	50,940
1960^a	49,908
1970^a	73,657
1980^a	251,409
1990[1]	355,150
2000[2]	614,582
2010[3]	864,961
2014[4]	1,117,304
^a Foreign-born population only[5][6]

Arabic speakers in the United States by states in 2010[3]

State	Arabic speakers
California	158,398
Michigan	101,470
New York	86,269
Texas	54,340
Illinois	53,251
New Jersey	51,011
Virginia	36,683
Florida	34,698
Ohio	33,125

Arabic in 2006 became the 10th most-studied language in the United States.[8]

In 2013, Arabic was ranked the 8th place on the list of enrollments in higher education in the USA.[9]

See also

• Arab American
• History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

References

1. "Detailed Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for Persons 5 Years and Over --50 Languages with Greatest Number of Speakers: United States 1990". United States Census Bureau. 1990. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
2. "Language Spoken at Home: 2000". United States Bureau of the Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
3. Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 2020-02-12.
4. Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
5. "Mother Tongue of the Foreign-Born Population: 1910 to 1940, 1960, and 1970". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
6. "Language Spoken at Home for the Foreign-Born Population 5 Years and Over: 1980 and 1990". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
7. Heldt, Diane (25 March 2010). "Arabic is fastest-growing language at U.S. colleges". The Gazette. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
8. Heldt, Diane (25 March 2010). "Arabic is fastest-growing language at U.S. colleges". The Gazette. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
9. [https://apps.mla.org/pdf/2013_enrollment_survey.pdf Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2013 David Goldberg, Dennis Looney, and Natalia Lusin, Web publication, February 2015]