CNN News:美國(guó)大陸語(yǔ)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“大聲喊話”環(huán)節(jié)了。在美國(guó)家庭里除了英語(yǔ)和西班牙語(yǔ)之外，什么語(yǔ)言是應(yīng)用最廣泛的呢?如果你知道答案就大聲喊出來(lái)。

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

是法語(yǔ)?漢語(yǔ)?德語(yǔ)還是阿拉伯語(yǔ)?你有三秒鐘回答時(shí)間。開(kāi)始。

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

一項(xiàng)調(diào)查數(shù)據(jù)顯示美國(guó)家庭中有280萬(wàn)人選擇采用漢語(yǔ)進(jìn)行溝通。這就是你的答案，下面正式進(jìn)入“大聲喊話”環(huán)節(jié)。

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.

對(duì)整個(gè)美國(guó)來(lái)講，盡管英語(yǔ)在美國(guó)占有82%的比重但是美國(guó)沒(méi)有官方用語(yǔ)，并且僅在28個(gè)州里選擇英語(yǔ)作為官方用語(yǔ)。當(dāng)你把每個(gè)州做比較的時(shí)候，除了英語(yǔ)和西班牙語(yǔ)外你會(huì)看到一個(gè)非常不一樣的語(yǔ)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.

除了英語(yǔ)，西班牙語(yǔ)可以說(shuō)在美國(guó)大洲中使用范圍最廣泛的語(yǔ)種。當(dāng)你把西班牙語(yǔ)從語(yǔ)言格局中去除之后你再看，現(xiàn)在出現(xiàn)了語(yǔ)言大熔爐。在密歇根，阿拉伯語(yǔ)作為第三大語(yǔ)種占領(lǐng)廣大市場(chǎng)。在明尼蘇達(dá)州是苗語(yǔ)。在俄勒岡州是俄語(yǔ)。越南語(yǔ)在四個(gè)州中使用，分別是德克薩斯州，俄克拉何馬州，內(nèi)布拉斯州和華盛頓。菲律賓語(yǔ)在夏威夷，加利福尼亞和內(nèi)華達(dá)州被叫做塔加拉族語(yǔ)。在四個(gè)州中選擇使用美國(guó)土著語(yǔ)言。還有11個(gè)州選擇法語(yǔ)，16個(gè)州選擇德語(yǔ)。

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.

你可能對(duì)所見(jiàn)到的這幾個(gè)數(shù)字感到吃驚，根據(jù)最近人口普查各州國(guó)家祖先數(shù)據(jù)顯示，德國(guó)后代數(shù)量遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)高過(guò)美國(guó)其它群體，甚至比愛(ài)爾蘭人還多。記住，據(jù)相關(guān)數(shù)據(jù)表明，直到第一次世界大戰(zhàn)德語(yǔ)一直都是美國(guó)第二個(gè)選擇使用最廣泛的語(yǔ)言。