Language Spoken at Home
Pennsylvania 1980-1990
Percent
Language 1990 1980 Change
Speak only English 10,278,294 10,355,377 -0.7
Spanish 213,096 134,231 58.8
Italian 103,844 140,968 -26.3
German 78,499 83,392 -5.9
Other West Germanic 56,517 *
Polish 55,344 76,845 -28.0
Slavic 52,476 29,129 80.2
French 45,515 34,072 33.6
Chinese 24,857 11,708 112.3
Korean 18,116 9,175 97.4
Greek 17,982 19,620 -8.3
Indic 17,401 *
Other Indo-European 16,241 *
Russian 13,929 12,452 11.9
Vietnamese 12,843 6,617 94.1
Arabic 10,887 7,642 42.5
Yiddish 9,844 19,247 -48.9
Hungarian 9,789 14,562 -32.8
Tagalog 7,605 5,039 50.9
Portuguese 6,940 4,796 44.7
Japanese 5,570 2,927 90.3
Mon-Khmer 4,232 *
Scandinavian 3,215 *
Native North American 569 633 -10.1
* Not reported in 1980
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Prepared by: The Pennsylvania State Data Center, Penn State Harrisburg