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QT-P16. Language Spoken at Home:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Maine

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Language


Number


Percent

 

 

 

Population 5 years and over

1,204,164

100.0

Speak only English

1,110,198

92.2

Speak a language other than English

93,966

7.8

 

 

 

Speak a language other than English

93,966

7.8

Spanish or Spanish Creole

9,611

0.8

French (incl. Patois, Cajun)

63,640

5.3

French Creole

54

0.0

Italian

1,476

0.1

Portuguese or Portuguese Creole

520

0.0

German

4,006

0.3

Yiddish

113

0.0

Other West Germanic languages

385

0.0

Scandinavian languages

779

0.1

Greek

767

0.1

 

 

 

Russian

896

0.1

Polish

763

0.1

Serbo-Croatian

521

0.0

Other Slavic languages

401

0.0

Armenian

85

0.0

Persian

341

0.0

Gujarathi

65

0.0

Hindi

128

0.0

Urdu

109

0.0

Other Indic languages

245

0.0

Other Indo-European languages

785

0.1

 

 

 

Chinese

1,259

0.1

Japanese

607

0.1

Korean

403

0.0

Mon-Khmer, Cambodian

1,084

0.1

Miao, Hmong

3

0.0

Thai

109

0.0

Laotian

136

0.0

Vietnamese

911

0.1

Other Asian languages

237

0.0

Tagalog

771

0.1

Other Pacific Island languages

217

0.0

 

 

 

Navajo

9

0.0

Other Native North American languages

1,182

0.1

Hungarian

112

0.0

Arabic

334

0.0

Hebrew

122

0.0

African languages

478

0.0

Other and unspecified languages

302

0.0

(X) Not applicable.
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrix PCT10



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