Following a five year survey (from 2009 to 2013) of Hawaii residents on Languages Other than English Spoken at Home, the U.S. Census Bureau has included “Hawaiian Pidgin” in their list, officially recognizing it as a language.
Of the 1,287,075 Hawaii residents (over 5 years old) polled, 960,182 speak only English at home. 326,893 speak a language other than English at home, which included Hawaiian Pidgin.
Out of 97 languages, Hawaiian Pidgin came in at #39 with 335 documented number of speakers. Tagalog topped the list with 58,345 number of speakers, followed by Ilocano with 54,005 and Japanese with 45,633. See the entire list below:
- Tagalog – 58,345
- Ilocano – 54,005
- Japanese – 45,633
- Spanish – 25,490
- Hawaiian – 18,610
- Chinese – 17,360
- Korean – 17,276
- Samoan – 12,795
- Vietnamese – 9,418
- Cantonese – 7,890
- Marshallese – 6,930
- Mandarin – 5,650
- German – 4,615
- Trukese – 4,475
- French (incl Patois, Cajun) – 4,450
- Micronesian – 3,965
- Tongan – 3,860
- Bisayan – 3,005
- Laotian – 2,279
- Thai – 1,920
- Portuguese – 1,915
- Pidgin – 1,275
- Russian – 1,169
- Indonesian – 880
- Chamorro – 820
- Ponapean – 715
- Italian – 655
- Formosan – 620
- Palau – 580
- Kusaiean – 515
- Polish – 513
- Persian – 476
- Arabic – 446
- Dutch – 445
- Hindi – 410
- Swedish – 375
- Czech – 360
- French Creole – 348
- Hawaiian Pidgin – 335
- Hebrew – 290
- Mon-Khmer, Cambodian – 274
- Sebuano – 260
- Paleo-siberian – 230
- Kru, Ibo, Yoruba – 220
- Danish – 210
- Norwegian – 205
- Greek – 192
- Bantu – 190
- Telugu – 185
- Burmese – 170
- Pangasinan – 170
- Serbian – 155
- Yapese – 155
- Romanian – 145
- Carolinian – 145
- Hungarian – 139
- Bulgarian – 105
- Nepali – 100
- Bengali – 95
- Finnish – 90
- Ukrainian – 85
- Armenian – 82
- Marathi – 75
- Pampangan – 70
- Maori – 70
- India (not elsewhere classified) – 65
- Fijian – 65
- Marquesan – 65
- Uncodable – 65
- Malay – 60
- Gujarati – 57
- Mongolian – 55
- Foothill North Yokuts – 55
- Afrikaans – 50
- Latvian – 50
- Amharic – 50
- Mande – 50
- Urdu – 45
- Lithuanian – 45
- Fulani – 45
- Estonian – 45
- Jamaican Creole – 40
- Turkish – 40
- Ulithean – 40
- Swahili – 40
- Yiddish – 39
- Croatian – 35
- Rarotongan – 35
- Upper Chinook – 35
- Sinhalese – 30
- Malayalam – 30
- Tamil – 30
- Icelandic – 25
- Irish Gaelic – 25
- Hmong – 23
- Pashto – 15
- Navajo – 13
See Also:
- Detailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over for Hawaii: 2009-2013 (PDF)
- Detailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over: 2009-2013
- Census Bureau Reports at Least 350 Languages Spoken in U.S. Homes
