re: Is English still the primary language in US?

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According to the ACS, the most common languages spoken at home by people aged five years of age or older in the period from 2017 to 2021 were:[9]

English – 245 million (78.5%)
Spanish – 41.3 million (13.2%)
Chinese (including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and all other varieties) – 3.40 million (1.1%)
Tagalog (including Filipino) – 1.72 million (0.5%)
Vietnamese – 1.52 million (0.5%)
Arabic – 1.39 million
French – 1.18 million
Korean – 1.07 million
Russian – 1.04 million
Portuguese – 937 thousand

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