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I ran into the following statistics and I think that they might be useful
to individuals as well as film lists in which "foreign" (i.e. non-English
language films) are being discussed.
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The full list follows (minus the 1980 figures)
Language Total speakers Percentage Change
used at home over age 5 between 1980 and 1990
in 1990
Spanish 17,339,000 UP 50.1 % SUPER-CHAMPION IN SHEER NUMBERS
French 1,703,000 UP 8.3 % SEE ALSO FRENCH CREOLE
German 1,547,000 down 3.7 %
Italian 1,309,000 down 19.9 %
Chinese 1,249,000 UP 97.7 %
Tagalog 843,000 UP 86.6 %
Polish 723,000 down 12.4 %
Korean 626,000 UP 172.2 %
Vietnamese 507,000 UP 127.2 %
Portuguese 430,000 UP 19.0 %
Japanese 428,000 UP 25.o %
Greek 388,000 down 5.4 %
Arabic 355,000 UP 57.4 %
Hindi,Urdu
and related 331.000 UP 155.1 %
Russian 242,000 UP 38.5 %
Yiddish 213,000 down 33.5 % CHAMPION LOSER;BUT SEE HEBREW
Thai 206,00 UP 131.6 %
Persian 202,000 UP 84.7 %
French Creole 188,000 UP 654.1 % THE RUNNER-UP;SEE ALSO FRENCH
Armenian 150,000 UP 46.3 %
Navajo 149,000 UP 20.6 %
Hungarian 148,000 down 17.9 %
Hebrew 144,000 UP 45.5% SEE YIDDISH
Dutch 143,000 down 2.6 %
Mon-Khmer 127,000 UP 676.3 % THE CHAMP IN GAINS
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TOTAL 31,845,000 (from 23,446,000 in 1980) UP almost 38 %
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