Talk:Languages of the United States

The US Senate passed an amendment to the Immigration Law making English the official language of the United States in the summer of 2006.

Hawaiian Native Speakers

I noticed that the section on Hawaiian says, "Hawaiian has 1,000 native speakers." No source is cited, and it goes on to say that around 27,000 "can speak and understand it" today, which seems to imply non-native speakers. However, looking at the article on the Hawaiian language, it numbers native speakers at about 24,000. So, something needs to be clarified here. Should the line about 1,000 native speakers simply be removed? Should it be clarified as a past number, on the timeline leading to the present 24,000+? Or is it the Hawaiian language article that is in error? 67.127.41.1 (talk) 13:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Edit by 173.77.71.234

I assume the IP editor means well and may be a native English speaker (I confess I'm not). Still, their proposal to fix the 'unacceptable' leads to a much less than accurate wording of the lead section. The word 'immigration', in my view, assumes that languages arrived in the current territory of the U.S. solely after the country was created in 1776. But there were several other historical processes at play (Spanish and French were widely spoken in much of the territory before it became part of the U.S., not to mention that several languages were brought in by forced movements such as the African slave trade). I wonder whether some sort of compromise could be reached. Ladril (talk) 17:13, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Official language or rather, lack of it

As on the page Languages of the United Kingdom, Roger 8 Roger (talk · contribs) is insisting that it is mere opinion that English is not the official language of the United States. I declined to revert immediately because I am currently in dispute with him on that page and did not want to appear to be edit warring. As stated by the United States government here, and in an article here about an attempt to make English the official language of the US, the United States does not have an official language as such.

I would instead invite Roger 8 Roger to self-revert, given that he knows his editing on this point is contentious, already being in dispute against consensus on the corresponding UK page. OsFish (talk) 11:41, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

The relevant discussion is about the UK so it should be on that talk page. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 20:33, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Massachusetts: English not official language

English is not the official language of Massachusetts. T g7 (talk) 01:50, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Pawnee is listed twice

Pawnee is listed twice in the list of indigenous languages. I imagine this is an error? - Columbus8myhw (talk) 03:48, 22 January 2025 (UTC)