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The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by ThEGodFaThEr125: 12:41am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Akorbi Highlights The Most Popular African Languages Spoken in the United States  Three African languages are among the top 10 fastest-growing languages spoken at home in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As such, American companies must take advantage of an opportunity to expand their language offerings to this growing demographic. Today’s blog from Akorbi showcases the most popular African languages spoken in the United States. Swahili Around 90,000 people speak Swahili at home in the United States. The number of people speaking Swahili at home grew 22 percent in the U.S. from 2016 to 2018. Akorbi’s headquarters region, Dallas-Fort Worth, has a strong community of Swahili-speakers, particularly in Irving. Yoruba Families who speak Yoruba (from Western Africa) at home grew 13 percent over two years. Yoruba is the primary African language spoken in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy. Like Swahili, Yoruba is a common African language spoken in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. DFW has the fifth-largest African migrant population at 64,000, and 18,000 of those are Nigerian. Amharic/Somali Amharic is the principal language of Ethiopia, while Somali is spoken in the neighboring country of Somalia. These two languages grew 12 percent among American households from 2016 to 2018. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Ethiopian and Somali culture can be found in the many eateries and coffeehouses offering authentic cuisine from these countries. Igbo Igbo is another popular African language spoken in America. Around 220,000 people speak Igbo in the United States, and it’s the principal language of southeastern Nigeria. Akorbi works in more than 170 languages, and Nigeria’s top two African languages are part of our offerings. Twi The Twi language comes to the United States from Ghana. A handful of universities in the United States offer to teach Twi language courses, including Indiana University, Ohio State, Michigan State, Penn, UCSD, and the University of Florida. Migrant Populations The influx and growth of African languages in America is mainly due to small pockets of immigrant populations. These people come to the United States from countries like Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. There are tremendous opportunities for companies who want to expand their offerings to a growing African population in America. In fact, the U.S. Census, for the first time in 2020, will print materials in four African languages: Swahili, Igbo, Yoruba, and Twi. https://akorbi.com/the-most-popular-african-languages-spoken-in-the-united-states/ 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by chukwuibuipob: 12:48am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 1:10am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Arab should be on the list because it’s language by people from the Northern Africa. I don’t how those people can’t speak other languages like the rest of Africa countries. Igbo language should be number 1 because I think we have more Igbo people in USA than Yoruba people. My observation 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by Bluntguy: 2:12am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Proudly Igbo 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by OVB123: 2:45am On Mar 12, 2022 |
It suprises me to know that there is an ethnic group that suppasses yoruba. Anyway congrats to swahili. 2 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by Totilopussylick(m): 4:58am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Part of Germany where l live, l'm yet to see the most spoking language like Igbo language . 1 Like |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by helinues: 5:01am On Mar 12, 2022 |
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Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by BoboNkiti19: 5:15am On Mar 12, 2022 |
helinues:This old man you no dey rest? |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by Simeonjoe1: 5:23am On Mar 12, 2022 |
This na fake analysis... Most commonly spoken is Yoruba 140k+ Those Ethiopian languages 130+ Igbo 90k+ And the rest, according to 2019 real data from US government. 3 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by EastisBae: 5:37am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Two Nigerian languages out of four is quite impressive. However, diaspora Igbos are not so passionate in speaking the language outside our homeland and there really should be a serious advocacy on this. We can't have such a rich culture, tradition and history yet shy away from our heritage. That's why I like Indians, they have a terrible accent yet it doesn't make them to stop identifying with their language. 5 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by EastisBae: 5:39am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Simeonjoe1: People like you with severe insecurity are a big problem. So you want to turn this into another dick measuring exercise? SMH. 5 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by YoungBlackRico(m): 6:22am On Mar 12, 2022 |
EastisBae:Someone already did, before him. Why you chose to ignore that and come for this instead baffles me 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by truthCoder: 7:56am On Mar 12, 2022 |
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Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by JAMO84: 8:51am On Mar 12, 2022 |
When Cownu is bored inside DSS underground cell, he will just be writing nonsense and be sending it to Chukwudi to come and post on Nairaland. 3 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by gidgiddy: 9:07am On Mar 12, 2022 |
The Twi language is something else. Unlike Nigeria, it is one indigenous language that all of Ghana speaks 2 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by dnawah(m): 9:10am On Mar 12, 2022 |
seunny4lif:arab,arabic, Saudi Arabia, middle east and Asia. |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by Michelle70(m): 9:19am On Mar 12, 2022 |
EastisBae:oga, igbos speak their language more than any other tribe outside their region. In ph, u are likely to meet a total stranger who will first speak igbo to u whether u are igbo or not. Most times it happens in the market |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by 1847seve: 9:51am On Mar 12, 2022 |
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Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by PlayerMeji: 10:44am On Mar 12, 2022 |
People like you with advanced bigoted perspective are even a bigger problem. You failed to caution @seunny4lif who began the whole dick measuring process only to attack @simeonjoe1 for defending his fort. Since when did condemning an erroneous assertion became an issue of ego security? EastisBae: 3 Likes |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 11:09am On Mar 12, 2022 |
dnawah: |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by joyandfaith: 11:11am On Mar 12, 2022 |
seunny4lif: Those people in North Africa have their national languages. Arab is not seen as African language. |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 11:15am On Mar 12, 2022 |
PlayerMeji:Nothing tribalism I what I said . For example there are more Igbo speakers in Germany than Yoruba speakers. Is that a bad thing? 1 Like |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by LILTJAY1: 11:17am On Mar 12, 2022 |
Op with lies.. This is an official report from US census bureau and not that crap up there.. Useless igbo tribe https://www.nairaland.com/6846026/check-out-largest-west-african |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 11:19am On Mar 12, 2022 |
joyandfaith:They have different tribes in the north but language is Arab. Libya have 3 or 4 tribes but I have never hear them speak another language like we do in Nigeria |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by Nobody: 11:25am On Mar 12, 2022 |
gidgiddy:YORUBA WILL BE A WORLD LANGUAGE! YORUBA WILL BE THE LANGUAGE OF WEST AFRICAN COMMERCE!! WHEN WE GET YORUBA NATION. YORUBA NATION NOW NO GOING BACK. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by joyandfaith: 11:33am On Mar 12, 2022 |
seunny4lif:Are they arabs? Arab language is to them just like English language is to us. |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 11:42am On Mar 12, 2022 |
joyandfaith:But our case here is different. Senegal for example, they speak the ethic language to you then change to French if you don’t understand them. In Nigeria depending which area, northen part of Nigeria speak Hausa to you before Broken English. But in Libya na Arab and Algeria na French and Arab |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by joyandfaith: 11:46am On Mar 12, 2022 |
seunny4lif:Read about arabization of north Africa. Do you know that ancient Egyptian language is different from the so called Arabic Egyptian language? |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by PlayerMeji: 11:51am On Mar 12, 2022 |
There is no tribal bigotry in what I said too. At least, Brazil seeks to include Yoruba as one of the country's official languages. Which is a great one for the Yoruba tribe. seunny4lif: |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by Readability: 12:14pm On Mar 12, 2022 |
seunny4lif:The arabian culture is ingrained in most of their culture, it's what they've been speaking since the 8th century, and the language has diffused into their own indigenous language. Most of them speak different versions of arabic and the way they pronounce some words differ from each other. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 12:24pm On Mar 12, 2022 |
joyandfaith:Ancient Egyptians are Sudaneses and Nubians I know that but they Northern Africa forgot their own ethics language. Reason I’m always angry at Nigerians abroad that their kids can’t even understand their languages. |
Re: The Most Popular African Languages Spoken In The United States by seunny4lif(m): 12:25pm On Mar 12, 2022 |
Readability:Yes on that Libya Arab is mixed of Arabic and Italia while Algeria is a mixed of Arab and French 1 Like |
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