After Spanish, Tagalog is the second-most common foreign language spoken in the US state of California.
A study by 24/7 Wall Street identified the most commonly spoken foreign languages in every state. The report looked at data provided by the United States Census Bureau’s 2015 Consumer Survey on Languages. According to the report, more than 832,000 Filipino immigrants and Filipino-Americans spoke Tagalog at home in California.
Tagalog is the base language of Filipino, the official national language of the Philippines.
This means that only 69 percent of the 1.2 million Filipinos living in California said that they speak Tagalog at home.
24/7’s report was released earlier this month. Spanish was excluded from the report as it is the “most commonly spoken second language in nearly every state.”
Tagalog was also the most-spoken foreign language after Spanish in the states of Washington and Nevada, where there are also significant populations of Filipino-Americans.
There are at least 3.4 million Filipinos and Filipino Americans living across the United States and they make up the second-largest Asian ethnic group after Chinese-Americans.
