Facilitating the discovery of languages, cultures
and ethnic groups in the Los Angeles area

Los Angeles Area Languages

Where English learners who speak each language go to school. Pick a language to see it on the big map, then use the slider to see how it has changed since 2011.

Svenska Swedish

33 English learners spoke Swedish at home in 2025-26

2025-26
Schools with the most English learners who speak Swedish
School District Students
Oxnard Santa Clarita Los Angeles Long Beach Santa Ana Riverside San Bernardino Palm Springs Lancaster

How to read the small maps: each shows the same area, from Oxnard to Palm Springs. Blue dots are where a language's English learners go to school; bigger dots mean more students.

Español Spanish 普通話 Mandarin Tiếng Việt Vietnamese Հայերեն Armenian Русский Russian العربية Arabic 粵語 Cantonese 한국어 Korean فارسی Persian (Farsi) Filipino (Tagalog) 日本語 Japanese Tu'un Sávi Mixteco ខ្មែរ Khmer (Cambodian) پښتو Pashto ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Punjabi Português Portuguese Chinese (other) اردو Urdu বাংলা Bengali हिन्दी Hindi ไทย Thai Українська Ukrainian Français French Türkçe Turkish ગુજરાતી Gujarati עברית Hebrew Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian Mayan languages తెలుగు Telugu தமிழ் Tamil አማርኛ Amharic Монгол Mongolian नेपाली Nepali မြန်မာဘာသာ Burmese Gagana Sāmoa Samoan Deutsch German Română Romanian 台語 Taiwanese Italiano Italian ລາວ Lao 台山話 Toishanese Lea fakatonga Tongan Zapoteco Hmoob Hmong मराठी Marathi മലയാളം Malayalam 潮州話 Chaozhou (Teochew) Binisaya Cebuano Қазақша Kazakh Ilokano Ilocano Asụsụ Igbo Igbo Polski Polish සිංහල Sinhala ትግርኛ Tigrinya Soomaali Somali English-based creoles ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada Svenska Swedish Nederlands Dutch Oʻzbekcha Uzbek Kreyòl ayisyen Haitian Creole Iranian languages Kiswahili Swahili Magyar Hungarian ქართული Georgian Shqip Albanian Ελληνικά Greek Baltic languages (other) Кыргызча Kyrgyz ܣܘܪܝܬ Assyrian Kurdî Kurdish French-based creoles Български Bulgarian Mien Central American Indian languages Chaldean Kajin M̧ajeļ Marshallese Тоҷикӣ Tajik Khmu Čeština Czech Yorùbá Yoruba Afro-Asiatic languages Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Turkmen Twi Sign languages (other) Dansk Danish Indo-European languages North American Indian languages Norsk Norwegian Wolof Azərbaycanca Azerbaijani Suomi Finnish Ganda Afaan Oromoo Oromo Afrikaans Creoles and pidgins (other) Lingala Lietuvių Lithuanian Bahasa Melayu Malay Oriya Crimean Tatar Judeo-Persian Mandar Diné bizaad Navajo Soninke Achinese Berber languages Chechen Dinka Last reported 2023-24 ကချင်ဘာသာ Kachin Konkani Latviešu Latvian Last reported 2024-25 Macedonian Nahuatl Portuguese-based creoles Shona Slovenčina Slovak Abkhazian Last reported 2024-25 Afar Assamese Avaric Balinese Baluchi Bambara Bamileke languages Basa Belarusian Bikol Català Catalan Caucasian languages Finu' Chamoru Chamorro Dravidian languages Ewe Fanti Faroese Na Vosa Vakaviti Fijian Last reported 2022-23 Ga Germanic languages Last reported 2024-25 Hausa ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Hawaiian Last reported 2023-24 Hiligaynon Hittite Íslenska Icelandic Last reported 2024-25 Judeo-Arabic Kapampangan Karen Last reported 2024-25 Kashmiri Last reported 2022-23 Gĩkũyũ Kikuyu Ikinyarwanda Kinyarwanda Lahu Last reported 2022-23 Mandingo Niger-Kordofanian languages Quechua Romany Salishan languages Siouan languages Last reported 2024-25 South American Indian languages Swiss German Tai languages བོད་སྐད Tibetan Uyghur

These are English learners, students still learning English, so they aren't everyone who speaks a language. Students who are fluent in English aren't counted, so languages spoken mostly by recent immigrants show up more than long-established ones.

Source: California Department of Education, English Learners by Grade & Language for public schools in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. CDE changed its language codes in 2023-24, so a few related languages are grouped together to keep years comparable. County outlines from the California Department of Technology.