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Avery County

QT-P16. Language Spoken at Home: 2000
Subject Number Percent
     
         Population 5 years and over 16,304 100.0%
Speak only English 15,536 95.3%
Speak a language other than English 768 4.7%
     
          Speak a language other than English 768 4.7%
Spanish or Spanish Creole 474 2.9%
French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 30 0.2%
French Creole 0 0.0%
Italian 0 0.0%
Portuguese or Portugese Creole 0 0.0%
German 125 0.8%
Yiddish 0 0.0%
Other West Germanic languages 0 0.0%
Scandinavian languages 0 0.0%
Greek 8 0.0%
     
Russian 8 0.0%
Polish 7 0.0%
Serbo-Croatian 0 0.0%
Other Slavic languages 5 0.0%
Armenian 0 0.0%
Persian 0 0.0%
Gujarathi 4 0.0%
Hindu 13 0.1%
Urdu 0 0.0%
Other Indic languages 0 0.0%
Other Indo-European languages 11 0.1%
     
Chinese 12 0.1%
Japanese 19 0.1%
Korean 9 0.1%
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian 18 0.1%
Miao, Hmong 6 0.0%
Thai 0 0.0%
Laotian 0 0.0%
Vietnamese 8 0.0%
Other Asian languages 7 0.0%
Tagalog 0 0.0%
Other Pacific Island languages 0 0.0%
     
Navajo 0 0.0%
Other Native North American languages 0 0.0%
Hungarian 0 0.0%
Arabic 0 0.0%
Hebrew 4 0.0%
African languages 0 0.0%
Other and unspecified languages 0 0.0%

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrix PCT10.
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