The United Way of King County has a handy list of languages spoken at home by students with limited English proficiency in the various area school districts, divided by region. South King County has the highest language count, with 117 languages (unsurprising, as it's where there is more affordable housing for new immigrants). Take a look at the list (links added to the ones I was unfamiliar with):
Language -- Number of students
Spanish 6433 (sure, pretty obvious)
Ukrainian 1429
Russian 965
Vietnamese 792
Somali 701
Punjabi 517
Korean 364
Unknown 308 (wait, what? Seems like not trying hard enough to gather data)
Cambodian 277
Tagalog 259
Samoan 247
Bosnian 122
Chinese-Cantonese 107
Lao 105
Arabic 103
Rumanian 95
Amharic 83
Hindi 78
Marshallese 73
Chinese-Unspec. 70 (again, not trying very hard to gather data)
Hmong 57
Farsi 47
Ilokano 46
Tigrinya 41
Chinese-Mandarin 40
Kurdish 38
Thai 35
Swahili 32
Bulgarian 31
French 31
Tongan 26
Urdu 25
Japanese 24
Oromo 23
Pilipino 17
Portugese 16
Khmer 15
Mien 15
Polish 14
Albanian 12
Kosraean 11
German 11
Serbo-Croatian 11
Moldavian 11
Kikuya 9 (I linked to Kikuyu or Gikuyu, maybe a typo?)
Creole 9 (again, not trying very hard-- which Creole?)
Liberian 9
Cebuano 8
Malayalam 7
Dinka 7 (Hey! I learned about the Dinka in my Anthropology classes!)
Ibo 7
Bantu 6
Gujarati 6
Kru 6 (I didn't know there were Liberian families in the area... why not, I guess)
Pashto 6
Palau 6 ("one of the world's youngest and smallest nations" and now smaller by 6)
Armenian 6
Cham 5
Wolof 5
Czech 5
Chuuk 5 (Wikipedia says Chuukese)
Indonesian 5
Chinese-Fukienese 5
Sinhalese 5
Telugu 5
Yoruba 5
Krio 5 (Sierra Leone lingua franca uniting the various language groups, from the word Creole, see above)
Nepali 5
Bengali 5
Mongolian 4
Persian 4 (only four? maybe only four that have limited English...)
Turkish 4
Ethiopic 4 (more entertaining name: Ge'ez)
Fula 3 (the ones you see in National Geographic so much)
Bassa 3
Chamorro 3
Burmese 3
Uzbek 3
Dari 3 (Zoroastrians!)
Hungarian 3
Fijian 3 (Only 350,000 native speakers, minus these 3)
Italian 3
Marathi 3
Luganda 3 (Luganda is from Uganda)
Carolinian 2 (from the Marianas!)
Ga 2 (shortest language name?)
Sudanese-Arabic 2
Byelorussian 2
Bemba 2
Kakwa 2 (rare Colombian language or African language?)
Lithuanian 2
Bangala 2
Hausa 2
Mixteco 2 (I wonder if they also speak Spanish?)
Haitian Creole 2
Akan 2 (appears to be a family of languages)
Kmhmu 2 (typo for Khmu?)
Latvian 1
Nigerian 1 (not specific enough! There are many languages in Nigeria, one is English)
Yap 1 (perhaps Yapese? What do you bet everyone asks about the money?)
Tibetan 1
Nuer 1 (another group I studied in college)
Lingala 1
Nyanja 1 (aka Chichewa?)
Papago 1 (perhaps a typo? I can't find something this would be other than a Native American tribe that is unlikely not to be bilingual)
Taishan 1 (Wikipedia says this is a dialect of Cantonese)
Chinese-Taiwanese 1
Sogdian 1 (another unlikely one: said to have gone extinct in the 9th century)
Chungki 1 (I can't find this at all)
Pulau-Guai 1 (I can't find this either)
Hebrew, Modern 1
Danish 1
Hawaiian 1 (honestly? That would have to be a really sheltered Hawaiian kid to not have encountered much English)
Dutch 1
Fallani 1 (can't find this either)
Slovak 1
Afrikaans 1
Finally, a somewhat scholarly examination of Bob Marley and the Banana Splits. The latter are returning, apparently.
Barfblog mentions the possible regulatory implications of fish-based pedicures. Do read to find what Mr. Ho finds hilarious.
A little late getting this up, and I will mention that I'm halfway through several books right now. But I'm back in the slow brain season again...
On another note, in the background of this pin-up beauty's love shack, check out those built-in bookshelves!
Charlatan: America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam, Brock
The rise and fall of Dr. Brinkley, the goat gland king. Really well researched and entertainingly written. Four stars.
Bookhunter, Shiga
70's cop show about a library cop, as a graphic novel. Excellent. Four stars.
My favoritest web comic (and podcast, and blog, and community forum-- they really are full service there) is at a turning point. Here is a guy trying to live the dream, the dream of making a living off creating web happiness. A dream inspired by JoCo. Can't you feel the dream? If not yet, go over there and read some comics, maybe listen to the (epic!) podcasts. And give. Maybe buy an avatar, maybe just drop some change (the foldey kind) on Joel. I did. And it was totally worth it.
And this is exactly the caliber of lie you get in public service.
Hey, I'm guest blogging over at Library Talk (unfortunately not really guest blogging since my hosts don't know about this blog as far as I'm aware). More posts will come once I'm back from my vacation.