My grandparents move from Germany in the 20's. Mom didn't speak English until she was 6.

WVU is a huge system. Refugees resettled from the Iraq War?

in my little FL county so maybe that's it.

There was a huge wave of Lebanese immigration to both states between 1900 and 1920. Two friends of mine belonged to that group. Kamal Ahwash, an expert in 19th century American silver coinage, was from West Virginia, and spoke English like a hillbilly, but was from the Lebanese community there. Helen Thomas was a famous Journalist, and she was from the Lebanese community in Kentucky. She had moved to Michigan as a child, and thus did not speak like the "Coal Miner's Daughter," but those were her roots.

McConnell would never allow that in his state!

French is Louisiana is a gimme. My guess for Nevada was Mandarin, but it turned out to be Tagalog, which was not really a surprise. Arabic in Michigan was no surprise, either.

They work, it seems, in every hotel, on every cruise ship, in every hospital, and in every service area around the world I have ever been in. It's a good thing they are such gentle pacifists (at least the ones not staying home and helping Duterte). If they wanted to, they could bring the world's service industries to a screeching halt tomorrow.

OK, that's a gross exaggeration, but maybe not as gross as it seems. I meet them everywhere. All I have to do is say "magandang omagá" when checking into any hotel or at any nurse station in any hospital, and SOMEBODY there is going to break out in a big smile.

The ones in Georgia probably work at the Kia plant.

The German immigrants to Pennsylvania were asked where they came from and what language they were speaking, and they replied "Deutsch." The Anglos who first heard them assumed that meant "Dutch," which is, of course, incorrect. The so-called "Pennsylvania Dutch" are really Pennsylvania DEUTSCH, and speak Ammerländisch (hence "Amish&quot , one of the many dialects of German. They have nothing to do with the Netherlands.

There are no Pennsylvania "Dutch" people speaking the Dutch language. This map should indicate Pennsylvania "German" as you point out, but I even question that.

In our larger PA cities where the immigrants are most likely to live, I would guess there are more Asians or possibly Indians than German immigrants. We also have Latinx immigrants here. The last large wave of Germans came over after World War II in the 1950's and early 60's. Those folks are now great-grandparents, and I doubt their progeny are speaking German since they were born and raised here. It's the first generation immigrants that still speak their native tongue and possibly pass it to their children. After that it's gone.

The one exception as you pointed out, is the Pennsylvania Amish people who are still trying to keep their German dialect alive, and it's mainly a German-English combo. Someone from Germany (not knowing any English) would have trouble understanding Amish dialect though.

Hutterites

I love seeing AZ, NM and SD having the Native languages being so prominent.

speaking native languages.

by the standards used for the article.

I would have thought our Hmong community in Minnesota was larger than the Somali community

Her Native language was French. But around the time of WWI there was an aggressive effort, led by Washington to eliminate other languages in the US and she was punished harshly in school for speaking French. Had that not happened South Louisiana would still be Francophone. The language still hangs on and there is an attempt to bring French back but its success is in doubt.

The rest makes sense, but Portuguese???