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Name: English: census figures, languages and lineage
Creator: Genetik
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Англичане

language area per Glottologcensus counts

30,895,337

United States, 2023 (ancestry (self-reported))

Indo-European

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

Main language: English. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Official figures from other countries

Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.

United States · 2023

30,895,337

Category as printed: «English»ancestry (self-reported)

[1] U.S. Census Bureau

Languages and their lineage

English

Indo-Europeanindo1319
Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
Germanicgerm1287
Northwest Germanicnort3152
West Germanicwest2793
North Sea Germanicnort3175
Anglo-Frisianangl1264
Anglicangl1265
Later Angliclate1254
Middle-Modern Englishmerc1242
Macro-Englishmacr1271
Englishstan1293

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Russians Marathi Germans Spaniards Mexicans Irish Americans Italians Romanians Nepali (Khas-Arya)Dutch Belarusians Czechs Scots Serbs Bulgarians Cubans Brazilians Welsh Greeks Macedonians Armenians Ukrainians Slovaks

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 People Reporting Ancestry (variable B04006_036E, label Estimate!!Total:!!English). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)