Puerto Rico
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Chinese, Yue
[yue] Users: 1,680 in Puerto Rico (2020). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Chinese.
English
[eng] Users: 1,551,000 in Puerto Rico, all users. L1 users: 61,000 in Puerto Rico (2020 J. Leclerc). L2 users: 1,490,000 (2020). Status: 1 (National). Statutory national working language (1993, Official Languages Act No. 1, Article 1). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
French
[fra] Users: 2,100 in Puerto Rico (2020). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French.
German, Standard
[deu] Users: 1,300 in Puerto Rico (2020). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German.
Hindi
[hin] Users: 3,670 in Puerto Rico (2020). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Western Hindi, Hindustani.
Italian
[ita] Users: 1,400 in Puerto Rico (2020). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian.
Puerto Rican Sign Language
[psl] Scattered. Users: 10,000 (2021 DBS/DOOR/SIL). Estimated 6,000–13,000 deaf signers, based on 0.2%–0.4% of the general population. another estimate: 8,000–40,000 deaf persons (Van Cleve 1986). Status: 5 (Developing). Alternate Names: ASL, American Sign Language, PRSL. Classification: Sign language, Deaf community sign language.
Spanish
[spa] Users: 3,112,000 in Puerto Rico, all users. L1 users: 3,080,000 in Puerto Rico (2020). L2 users: 32,000 (Instituto Cervantes 2019). Status: 1 (National). Statutory national language (1993, Official Languages Act No. 1, Article 1). Alternate Names: Español. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.
Taíno
[tnq] Bayamon Municipality, southwest of San Juan on north coast; otherwise scattered. Users: No known L1 speakers. The last fluent speaker died no later than the late 19th century (Wahayona Campos Reyes 2004). Status: 9 (Dormant). Alternate Names: Taino. Classification: Maipurean, Northern, Maritime, Ta-Maipurean.