Arabic language in the United States
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The Arabic language is the fastest-growing foreign language taught at U.S. colleges and universities, a trend mirrored at the University of Iowa.[7]
Arabic in 2006 became the 10th most-studied language in the United States.[8]
In 2013, Arabic was ranked the 8th place on the list of enrollments in higher education in the USA.[9][citation needed]
See also[]
- Arab American
- History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit
References[]
- ^ "Detailed Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for Persons 5 Years and Over --50 Languages with Greatest Number of Speakers: United States 1990". United States Census Bureau. 1990. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- ^ "Language Spoken at Home: 2000". United States Bureau of the Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 2020-02-12.
- ^ Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
- ^ "Mother Tongue of the Foreign-Born Population: 1910 to 1940, 1960, and 1970". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ^ "Language Spoken at Home for the Foreign-Born Population 5 Years and Over: 1980 and 1990". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ^ Heldt, Diane (25 March 2010). "Arabic is fastest-growing language at U.S. colleges". The Gazette. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ^ Heldt, Diane (25 March 2010). "Arabic is fastest-growing language at U.S. colleges". The Gazette. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ^ [https://apps.mla.org/pdf/2013_enrollment_survey.pdf Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2013 David Goldberg, Dennis Looney, and Natalia Lusin, Web publication, February 2015]
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