Languages spoken in your city.

[Tukkumminnguaq]

I just heard some languages here in IQALUIT, NUNAVUT

-Inuktitut
-English
-French
-Chinese
-Japanese
-Kalaallisut
-Ummm maybe Filipino, other, i cant find internet census languages.

[Sol Invictus]

I suspect that any European city which has university may be full of exchange students speaking all kinds of languages. So I'm wondering if "spoken" means that there is large enough permanent community of speakers ?

Anyways I think I read somewhere that people in Latvia (note that about half of inhabitants live in in or close to my hometown Riga and that probably includes most people who speak other languages) speak around 100 languages. I googled and found statistics on these being spoken in Latvia:

Latvian
Russian
English
German
Polish
Belorussian
Lithuanian
Ukrainian
French
Romani
Estonian
Romanian
Armenian
Tatar
Yiddish
Azerbaijani
Livonian

I am bad at guessing what language exactly I hear, I can more or less guess what group it belongs to, so I have heard some Finno-Ugric, Romani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, English, German and some other Germanic languages

As for the happy Erasmus enriched environment in Tallinn - so far I've heard Estonian, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, English, Spanish, French, Georgian, German, Polish, Italian (not sure about the last one, I heard person who said she was from Italy speaking it to some other Erasmus students, probably some dialect or maybe even something totally different)

[linguoboy]

This past weekend was Celtic Fest in Chicago, so I can now confidently add Irish to my previous list. There were native speakers from Connemara and Donegal (Gweedore and Fanad) on hand, not to mention the local learners. (I also heard people sing and say a prayer in Cornish, but I wouldn't count this as "speaking".)

[Formiko]

This past weekend was Celtic Fest in Chicago, so I can now confidently add Irish to my previous list. There were native speakers from Connemara and Donegal (Gweedore and Fanad) on hand, not to mention the local learners. (I also heard people sing and say a prayer in Cornish, but I wouldn't count this as "speaking".)

Cornish? That's fascinating. How did you know it was Cornish?

[linguoboy]

This past weekend was Celtic Fest in Chicago, so I can now confidently add Irish to my previous list. There were native speakers from Connemara and Donegal (Gweedore and Fanad) on hand, not to mention the local learners. (I also heard people sing and say a prayer in Cornish, but I wouldn't count this as "speaking".)

Cornish? That's fascinating. How did you know it was Cornish?

Because the singers said, "We're going to do a song in Cornish" and the guy from the Illinois Cornish Society said, "I'm going to say a grace in Cornish". And even if I don't speak Cornish, I'm familiar enough with the language to tell that, indeed, it was Cornish they were singing bzw. praying in.

A couple years ago, we had a Manx band perform, but again singing in a language isn't speaking in it. And the year before that, a Breton band--or rather two bands mashed together. I didn't get up close enough to the musicians to hear whether they were actually chatting in the language together or not.

[Kenny]

Having minorities speaking these languages in my town, I sometimes get to hear:
- Swabish/German
- Croatian/Serbian

Other than these I've only encountered:
- French
- Spanish
- English
- Dutch
- Norwegian

[Formiko]

This past weekend was Celtic Fest in Chicago, so I can now confidently add Irish to my previous list. There were native speakers from Connemara and Donegal (Gweedore and Fanad) on hand, not to mention the local learners. (I also heard people sing and say a prayer in Cornish, but I wouldn't count this as "speaking".)

Cornish? That's fascinating. How did you know it was Cornish?

Because the singers said, "We're going to do a song in Cornish" and the guy from the Illinois Cornish Society said, "I'm going to say a grace in Cornish".

That's a good way to tell I recently met someone who is a Cherokee speaker (like me) and he also speaks Cheyenne. (I'm very familair with it, but not conversational). What are the chances of seeing not one, but 2 Cherokee speakers 1,000 miles from the nearest Cherokee population center, and it's NOT a powow?

[Caius]

Greeley, CO:

(in order of prominance)

English
Spanish
Somalian
Arabic
Swahili
Korean
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Canton)
Souix
Cherokee
Pawnee

[Smitty]

Languages I've heard in Bradford:

[flag]en-GB[/flag] [flag]en-CA[/flag] English
[flag]fr[/flag] [flag]fr-CA[/flag] French
[flag]de[/flag] German
[flag]es[/flag] [flag]es-CR[/flag] Spanish
[flag]pt[/flag] [flag]pt-BR[/flag] Portuguese
[flag]it[/flag] Italian
[flag]el[/flag] Greek
[flag]pl[/flag] Polish
[flag]sl[/flag] Slovenian
[flag]ru[/flag] Russian
[flag]zh.Hant[/flag] [flag]zh.Hang[/flag] Mandarin
[flag]yue.Hant[/flag] Cantonese
[flag]ja[/flag] Japanese
[flag]ko[/flag] Korean
[flag]km[/flag] Khmer
[flag]dz[/flag] Dzongka
[flag]hi[/flag] Hindi
[flag]ur[/flag] Urdu
[flag]bn[/flag] [flag]hi[/flag] Bengali
[flag]hi[/flag] Gujarati
Arabic
[flag]fa[/flag] Persian
[flag]ne[/flag] Nepali

A lot of languages I know, but many of these is due to the university being in close proximity to the city centre. In the cases where the speakers of a given language have originated from different countries, the more common people's flag is displayed first. The major languages that I've encountered have been highlighted.

[SImon Gray]

Copenhagen

(Nordic languages)
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic

(these ones you have to seek out, but they do exist here - there's a street in Cph with Greenland/Faroe bars)
Faroese
Greenlandic

(often heard)
English
Mandarin

(sometimes heard)
German
Cantonese
Japanese
Korean

[Vortarulo]

LEIPZIG, GERMANY

In about the order of frequency:
German
Russian
Arabic
Chinese
Vietnamese
English
Turkish
German Sign Language (DGS)
Italian
Mongolian
Spanish
French

And only occassionally or only once I heard:
Georgian
Lithuanian
Finnish
Albanian
Hebrew
Greek
Dutch
Japanese
Swedish
Portuguese
Thai

I didn't count Esperanto in, because I've never heard it spoken on the street by anyone I didn't know.

Quite frequently I can hear languages from India, Bangladesh or Pakistan, but I cannot tell them apart. Same goes for African language (I'm usually guessing for Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo). I know a guy who speaks Makue, though.
I should ask more often...

[TheKickInside]

In Dallas:
(primary) English and Spanish
Hindi/Urdu
Chinese
Korean
Persian (Farsi)
Russian
Arabic
French

In London:
all of them

[Formiko]

Quite frequently I can hear languages from India, Bangladesh or Pakistan, but I cannot tell them apart. Same goes for African language (I'm usually guessing for Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo). I know a guy who speaks Makue, though.
I should ask more often...

You've got me stumped with Makue. I even did an Ethnolgue search..nichts.
I even tried Bakue, Chikue and even Kue. Maybe you can enlighten me?
I heard Esperanto spoken outside a café, but it was at an Esperanto meeting , but it was the first time I went, and didn't know them then

[Vortarulo]

You've got me stumped with Makue

Oops, I misspelled it... it should be Makua or Makhuwa.

He's from Mozambik and when he told me he spoke "Macua", I had never heard of that language before (I'm generally quite unfamiliar with African language, except for some knowledge about Khoisan languages) and couldn't wait to get home to enter it in Ethnologue.
Here's there phoneme inventory, by the way. Seems like a typical average Bantu language to me. :S

I met the guy at the local Sprachenabend two weeks ago; he was sitting at the English table behind us (the Esperanto table) and wanted to hear our language. Weird... I totally forgot to ask him to speak a bit in his language! I will do that next Tuesday!

[Hummfrea]

I live in a fairly small city, but we have Spanish, Somalian (?), Chinese, and several others. And English.

[Formiko]

I live in a fairly small city, but we have Spanish, Somalian (?), Chinese, and several others. And English.

How do you know it's Somali? I love the way Somali sounds.

[HellFire]

Melbourne:
English
Greek
Chinese
Italian
Punjabi
Dutch
Vietnamese

[Formiko]

Melbourne:
English
Greek
Chinese
Italian
Punjabi
Dutch
Vietnamese

How do you know it's Punjabi and not Gujarati for example? They sound all the same to me.

[HellFire]

How do you know it's Punjabi and not Gujarati for example? They sound all the same to me.

There are probably more but Punjabi is the only one I know for sure because I've got a friend who speaks it.

[linguoboy]

How do you know it's Punjabi and not Gujarati for example?

They were yelling "HOI! HOI! HOI!" between ever other line.