Language Stats: compare key data on European Union & United States

Languages: A rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
Languages > Note: This entry provides a rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.

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STAT	European Union	United States	HISTORY
Languages	Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish	English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7%; <i>note:</i> Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii
Languages > Note	only official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - over 19% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken language - about 49% of the EU population is conversant with it	Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011

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