| Italian speakers in the US | |
| Year | Speakers |
|---|---|
| 1910a | 1,365,110 |
| 1920a | 1,624,998 |
| 1930a | 1,808,289 |
| 1940[1] | 3,755,820 |
| 1960a | 1,277,585 |
| 1970[2] | 1,025,994 |
| 1980[3] | 1,618,344 |
| 1990[4] | 1,308,648 |
| 2000[5] | 1,008,370 |
| 2010[6] | 807,010 |
| ^a Foreign-born population only[7] | |
An important part of Italian American identity, the Italian language has been widely spoken in the United States of America for more than one hundred years, due to large-scale immigration beginning in the late 19th century. Since the 1980s, however, it has seen a steady decline in the number of speakers, as earlier generations of Italian Americans die out and the language is less often spoken at home by successive generations due to assimilation and integration into American society. Today Italian is the eighth most spoken language in the country.
- ^ "Mother Tongue By Nativity, Parentage, County of Origin, and Age, for States and Large Cities" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ^ "1970 Census, Tables 17-20 and Appendices" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^ "Appendix Table 2. Languages Spoken at Home: 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2007". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ^ "Detailed Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for Persons 5 Years and Over --50 Languages with Greatest Number of Speakers: United States 1990". United States Census Bureau. 1990. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- ^ "Language Spoken at Home: 2000". United States Bureau of the Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ^ "Detailed Languages Spoken at Home 2006-2008".
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Mother Tongue of the Foreign-Born Population: 1910 to 1940, 1960, and 1970". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
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