స్పానిష్ భాష: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

In the 2006 census, 44.3 million people of the U.S. population were [[Hispanic]] or [[Latino]] by origin;<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFPeople?_event=&geo_id=01000US&_geoContext=01000US&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=people_10&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry= U.S. Census Bureau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302044209/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFPeople?_event=&geo_id=01000US&_geoContext=01000US&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=people_10&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null:null&_keyword=&_industry= |date=2009-03-02 }} Hispanic or Latino by specific origin.</ref> 34 million people, 12.2 percent, of the population older than 5 years old speak Spanish at home.<ref name="US Spanish">[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GRTTable?_bm=y&-_box_head_nbr=R1602&-ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&-format=US-30 U.S. Census Bureau 1.] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212034918/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GRTTable?_bm=y&-_box_head_nbr=R1602&-ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&-format=US-30 |date=2020-02-12 }} Percent of People 5 Years and Over Who Speak Spanish at Home: 2006, [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S1601&-ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false U.S. Census Bureau 2.] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212055712/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S1601&-ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false |date=2020-02-12 }} 34,044,945 People 5 Years and Over Who Speak Spanish at Home: 2006</ref> Spanish has a [[Spanish in the United States|long history in the United States]] (many south-western states and [[Florida]] were part of Mexico and Spain), and it recently has been revitalized by Hispanic immigrants. Spanish is the most widely taught foreign language in the country.<ref>{{PDFlink|[http://www.adfl.org/resources/enrollments.pdf Foreign language class enrollments in U.S. schools of higher learning]|129&nbsp;KB}}, MLA Fall 2002.</ref> Although the United States has no formally designated "official languages," Spanish is formally recognized at the state level in various states besides English; in the U.S. state of [[New Mexico]] for instance, 30% of the population speaks the language. It also has strong influence in metropolitan areas such as [[Los Angeles]], [[Miami]], [[San Antonio]], [[New York City]], and in the 2000s the language has rapidly expanded in [[Atlanta]], [[Houston]], [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] and other major Sun-Belt cities. Spanish is the dominant spoken language in [[Puerto Rico]], a U.S. territory. In total, the U.S. has the world's fifth-largest Spanish-speaking population.<ref>[http://spanish.about.com/library/weekly/aa070300a.htm Facts, Figures, and Statistics About Spanish], American Demographics, 1998.</ref>