Not Just in English Anymore

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  • Jane Canfield

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v51i2.8060

Abstract

Money, dinero, 钱, denaro, novac: In any language our users deserve accurate information.

Sixty-eight million people in the United States speak a language other than English. Spanish speakers make up 13.2% of the US population. The number of other language speakers in the United States tripled from 23.1 million in 1980 to 67.8 million in 2019. The five most spoken languages other than English are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Arabic. (https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/12/languages-we-speak-in-united-states.html)

Author Biography

Jane Canfield

Jane Canfield (jcanfield@pucpr.edu), Federal Documents and Information Specialist, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico.

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2023-06-23

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