Most spoken languages in New Mexico in 2010
English is spoken by 63.96% of people over 5 years old in New Mexico.
Languages other than English are spoken by 36.04%.
Speakers of languages other than English are divided up as follows.
New Mexico
Source: American Community Survey
5-Year Estimates, Public Use Microdata Sample, 2006–2010
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English
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1,197,144
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63.96%
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All languages other than English combined
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674,572
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36.04%
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Spanish
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532,506
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28.45%
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Navajo
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65,493
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3.50%
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Keres
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12,666
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0.68%
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Zuni
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8,908
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0.48%
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Other specified North American Indian languages
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8,846
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0.47%
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German
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7,439
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0.40%
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French
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4,185
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0.22%
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Vietnamese
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3,799
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0.20%
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Chinese
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3,683
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0.20%
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Tagalog
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1,862
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0.10%
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Apache
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1,666
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0.09%
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Japanese
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1,631
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0.09%
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Arabic
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1,582
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0.08%
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Korean
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1,384
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0.07%
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Italian
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1,378
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0.07%
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Russian
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887
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0.05%
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Polish
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812
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0.04%
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Persian
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782
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0.04%
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Portuguese
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768
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0.04%
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Laotian
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758
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0.04%
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Dutch
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730
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0.04%
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American Indian
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697
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0.04%
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Greek
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696
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0.04%
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Hebrew
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646
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0.03%
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Thai
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638
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0.03%
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Hindi
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558
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0.03%
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Tamil
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547
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0.03%
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Mandarin
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481
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0.03%
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Hungarian
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470
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0.03%
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Total:
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1,871,716
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Data are estimates based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. Data are not displayed where there were insufficient samples with which to compute an estimate.
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