CNN News:美国大陆语言分布格局

Time for the "Shoutout." After English and Spanish, what`s the most widely spoken language in U.S. homes? If you think you know it, shout it out!

又到了“大声喊话”环节了。在美国家庭里除了英语和西班牙语之外，什么语言是应用最广泛的呢?如果你知道答案就大声喊出来。

Is it French, Chinese, German or Arabic? You`ve got three seconds, go!

是法语?汉语?德语还是阿拉伯语?你有三秒钟回答时间。开始。

An estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. speak Chinese at home making that your answer. And that`s your shoutout.

一项调查数据显示美国家庭中有280万人选择采用汉语进行沟通。这就是你的答案，下面正式进入“大声喊话”环节。

Now, that`s for the U.S. as a whole. It has no official language, though English is spoken by more than 82 percent of people in the U.S. And it is official in 28 states. When you take each state, though, you break down what`s spoken after English and Spanish, you`ll see an incredibly diverse linguistic landscape.

对整个美国来讲，尽管英语在美国占有82%的比重但是美国没有官方用语，并且仅在28个州里选择英语作为官方用语。当你把每个州做比较的时候，除了英语和西班牙语外你会看到一个非常不一样的语言格局。

Other than English, Spanish is the most spoken language in almost all U.S. states. But watch what happens when you remove Spanish from the equation. Now there is the melting pot. In Michigan, Arabic clocks in as the third most commonly spoken language. In Minnesota, it`s Hmong. In Oregon, it`s Russian. It`s Vietnamese in four states, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Washington. It`s a Filipino language called Tagalog in Hawaii, California and Nevada. In four states, it`s Native American languages, it`s French in 11 states and in 16 states it`s German.

除了英语，西班牙语可以说在美国大洲中使用范围最广泛的语种。当你把西班牙语从语言格局中去除之后你再看，现在出现了语言大熔炉。在密歇根，阿拉伯语作为第三大语种占领广大市场。在明尼苏达州是苗语。在俄勒冈州是俄语。越南语在四个州中使用，分别是德克萨斯州，俄克拉何马州，内布拉斯州和华盛顿。菲律宾语在夏威夷，加利福尼亚和内华达州被叫做塔加拉族语。在四个州中选择使用美国土著语言。还有11个州选择法语，16个州选择德语。

If you`re surprised at that number, according to recent Census measures of countries of ancestry, people of German heritage outnumber all other groups in the United States, even Irish. Remember, until the First World War by some accounts, German was the second most widely spoken language in all of the United States.

你可能对所见到的这几个数字感到吃惊，根据最近人口普查各州国家祖先数据显示，德国后代数量远远高过美国其它群体，甚至比爱尔兰人还多。记住，据相关数据表明，直到第一次世界大战德语一直都是美国第二个选择使用最广泛的语言。