Turkish speakers in the US

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Turkish speakers in the US

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2022-03-13 15:40
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212,489 Turkish Americans according to the 2019 ACS Estimates: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=turkish&tid=ACSSPP1Y2019.S0201

64.1% speaking a language at home other than English

So at least 136k Turkish speakers.

That's a lower bound as there are also Cypriot-Turks, Bulgarian Turks, etc. in the US. And some Turkish Americans speak English at home but can still speak Turkish.

Editorial Action

We will update the L1 speaker population for Turkish [tur] in the United States, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Thu, 2022-03-17 16:49

Dear Antoine,

Thank you for this update on Turkish [tur] speakers in the United States.

Best regards,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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