What is your native language?

Applicants to Queens College are asked to list their native language. This image represents the responses of the 10,052 current QC students who provided an answer. The size of each language name is roughly proportionate to the number of students who reported that language as their native tongue. Nearly half of the respondents named a language other than English; in all, 75 different languages are represented. (Thanks to Margaret McAuliffe and Institutional Research for the data.)

Hover over a language name to learn about the language and its representation at Queens.
Click a language's name to open its Ethnologue profile.

Slovene

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 2,000,000
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Slovenia

santali

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 6,050,000
Language family Austro-Asiatic
Region of origin India

pampangan

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,897,378
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Luzon, Philippines

marathi

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 68,049,787
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin India

malay

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 17,604,253
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Malaysia

latvian

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,543,844
Language family Indo-European, Baltic
Region of origin Latvia

khmer

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 13,276,639
Language family Austro-Asiatic
Region of origin Cambodia

ho

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,077,000
Language family Austro-Asiatic
Region of origin India

hadiyya

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 923,958
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Region of origin Ethiopia

galician

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 3,173,400
Language family Indo-European, Italic
Region of origin Spain

ewe

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 3,112,400
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Niger-Congo

estonian

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,075,497
Language family Uralic
Region of origin Estonia

edo

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,000,000
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Nigeria

chagga

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 400,000
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Tanzania

twi-fante

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 8,300,000
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Congo

sinhalese

Native speakers at QC 2 respondents
.02% of total
Native speakers worldwide 13,220,256
Language family Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Sri Lanka

ilocano

Native speakers at QC 2 respondents
.02% of total
Native speakers worldwide 8,000,000
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Philippines

hausa

Native speakers at QC 2 respondents
.02% of total
Native speakers worldwide 24,162,000
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Region of origin Nigeria

gondi

Native speakers at QC 2 respondents
.02% of total
Native speakers worldwide 2,632,000
Language family Dravidian
Region of origin India

dutch- flemish

Native speakers at QC 2 respondents
.02% of total
Native speakers worldwide 17,370,777
Language family Indo-European, Germanic
Region of origin Netherlands

afrikaans

Native speakers at QC 2 respondents
.02% of total
Native speakers worldwide 5,965,879
Language family Indo-European, Germanic
Region of origin South Africa

uzbek

Native speakers at QC 3 respondents
.03% of total
Native speakers worldwide 18,795,591
Language family Altaic
Region of origin Uzbekistan

igbo

Native speakers at QC 5 respondents
.05% of total
Native speakers worldwide 18,000,000
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Niger-Congo

telugu

Native speakers at QC 6 respondents
.06% of total
Native speakers worldwide 69,688,278
Language family Dravidian
Region of origin India

slovak

Native speakers at QC 6 respondents
.06% of total
Native speakers worldwide 5,011,120
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Slovakia

hungarian

Native speakers at QC 6 respondents
.06% of total
Native speakers worldwide 13,611,600
Language family Uralic
Region of origin Hungary

tamil

Native speakers at QC 7 respondents
.07% of total
Native speakers worldwide 66,020,200
Language family Dravidian
Region of origin India

indonesian

Native speakers at QC 8 respondents
.08% of total
Native speakers worldwide 23,143,354
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Indonesia

georgian

Native speakers at QC 8 respondents
.08% of total
Native speakers worldwide 4,178,604
Language family Kartvelian
Region of origin Georgia

ukrainian

Native speakers at QC 9 respondents
.09% of total
Native speakers worldwide 39,441,842
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Ukraine

thai

Native speakers at QC 9 respondents
.09% of total
Native speakers worldwide 20,229,987
Language family Tai-Kadai
Region of origin Thailand

nepali

Native speakers at QC 9 respondents
.09% of total
Native speakers worldwide 17,209,255
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Nepal

german

Native speakers at QC 9 respondents
.09% of total
Native speakers worldwide 95,392,978
Language family Indo-European, Germanic
Region of origin Germany

yoruba

Native speakers at QC 10 respondents
.10% of total
Native speakers worldwide 19,327,000
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Nigeria

bulgarian

Native speakers at QC 11 respondents
.11% of total
Native speakers worldwide 8,954,811
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Bulgaria

burmese

Native speakers at QC 14 respondents
.14% of total
Native speakers worldwide 32,301,581
Language family Sino-Tibetan
Region of origin Myanmar

vietnamese

Native speakers at QC 16 respondents
.16% of total
Native speakers worldwide 67,439,139
Language family Austro-Asiatic
Region of origin Vietnam

filipino

Native speakers at QC 16 respondents
.16% of total
Native speakers worldwide No estimate available
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Philippines

pashto

Native speakers at QC 18 respondents
.18% of total
Native speakers worldwide 9,700,000
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Pakistan

turkish

Native speakers at QC 20 respondents
.20% of total
Native speakers worldwide 50,625,794
Language family Altaic
Region of origin Turkey

malayalam

Native speakers at QC 23 respondents
.23% of total
Native speakers worldwide 35,757,100
Language family Dravidian
Region of origin India

armenian

Native speakers at QC 23 respondents
.23% of total
Native speakers worldwide 6,723,840
Language family Indo-European, Armenian
Region of origin Armenia

japanese

Native speakers at QC 28 respondents
.28% of total
Native speakers worldwide 122,433,899
Language family Japanese
Region of origin Japan

albanian

Native speakers at QC 40 respondents
.40% of total
Native speakers worldwide 2,779,246
Language family Indo-European, Albanian
Region of origin Serbia and Montenegro

tagalog

Native speakers at QC 41 respondents
.41% of total
Native speakers worldwide 15,900,098
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Philippines

portuguese

Native speakers at QC 43 respondents
.43% of total
Native speakers worldwide 177,457,180
Language family Indo-European, Italic
Region of origin Portugal, Brazil

french

Native speakers at QC 47 respondents
.47% of total
Native speakers worldwide 64,858,311
Language family Indo-European, Italic
Region of origin France

romanian

Native speakers at QC 44 respondents
.44% of total
Native speakers worldwide 23,498,367
Language family Indo-European, Italic
Region of origin Romania

italian

Native speakers at QC 44 respondents
.44% of total
Native speakers worldwide 61,489,984
Language family Indo-European, Italic
Region of origin Italy

creole

Native speakers at QC 47 respondents
.47% of total
Native speakers worldwide 7,389,066
Language family Creole, French-based
Region of origin Haiti

serbo- croatian

Native speakers at QC 20 respondents
.20% of total
Native speakers worldwide 21,000,000
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia

gujarati

Native speakers at QC 50 respondents
.50% of total
Native speakers worldwide 46,106,136
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin India

urdu

Native speakers at QC 179 respondents
1.78% of total
Native speakers worldwide 60,503,579
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Pakistan

arabic

Native speakers at QC 68 respondents
.68% of total
Native speakers worldwide 206,000,000
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Region of origin Middle East

hebrew

Native speakers at QC 71 respondents
.71% of total
Native speakers worldwide 5,055,000
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Israel

bengali

Native speakers at QC 249 respondents
2.48% of total
Native speakers worldwide 171,070,202
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Bangladesh

korean

Native speakers at QC 277 respondents
2.76% of total
Native speakers worldwide 67,019,690
Language family Isolate
Region of origin North Korea, South Korea

byelorussian

Native speakers at QC 3 respondents
.03% of total
Native speakers worldwide 9,081,102
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Belarus

amharic

Native speakers at QC 3 respondents
.03% of total
Native speakers worldwide 17,417,913
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Region of origin Ethopia

malagasy

Native speakers at QC 3 respondents
.03% of total
Native speakers worldwide 5,948,700
Language family Austronesian
Region of origin Madagascar

konkani

Native speakers at QC 3 respondents
.03% of total
Native speakers worldwide 4,000,000
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin India

swahili

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 772,642
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Tanzania

lithuanian

Native speakers at QC 4 respondents
.04% of total
Native speakers worldwide 3,125,281
Language family Indo-European, Baltic
Region of origin Lithuania

akan

Native speakers at QC 4 respondents
.04% of total
Native speakers worldwide 8,300,000
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Congo

tibetan

Native speakers at QC 5 respondents
.05% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,261,587
Language family Sino-Tibetan
Region of origin Tibet

chinese

Native speakers at QC 631 respondents
6.28% of total
Native speakers worldwide 1,176,000,000
Language family Sino-Tibetan
Region of origin China

russian

Native speakers at QC 354 respondents
3.52% of total
Native speakers worldwide 145,031,551
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Russia

spanish

Native speakers at QC 1224 respondents
12.18% of total
Native speakers worldwide 322,299,171
Language family Indo-European, Italic
Region of origin Spain, Latin America

wolof

Native speakers at QC 1 respondents
.01% of total
Native speakers worldwide 3,612,560
Language family Niger-Congo
Region of origin Senegal

panjabi

Native speakers at QC 83 respondents
.83% of total
Native speakers worldwide 60,812,093
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Pakistan

greek

Native speakers at QC 108 respondents
1.07% of total
Native speakers worldwide 12,258,540
Language family Indo-European, Greek
Region of origin Greece

farsi

Native speakers at QC 65 respondents
.65% of total
Native speakers worldwide 24,316,121
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin Iran

hindi

Native speakers at QC 77 respondents
.77% of total
Native speakers worldwide 363,839,000
Language family Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
Region of origin India

polish

Native speakers at QC 154 respondents
1.53% of total
Native speakers worldwide 42,708,133
Language family Indo-European, Slavic
Region of origin Poland

english

Native speakers at QC 5511 respondents
54.82% of total
Native speakers worldwide 309,352,280
Language family Indo-European, Germanic
Region of origin England, United States