Languages of Puerto Rico
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of Puerto Rico.]
Puerto Rico. 3,947,000. National or official languages: Spanish, English. Self-governing commonwealth of USA. Literacy rate: 89%–90%. Immigrant languages: Corsican, Eastern Yiddish, French (2,620), Haitian (440), Italian (1,560), Ladino, North Levantine Spoken Arabic, Papiamentu (200), South Levantine Spoken Arabic, Standard German (1,450). Also includes Chinese (2,000). Deaf population: 8,000 to 40,000 (Van Cleve 1986). Deaf institutions: 5. The number of individual languages listed for Puerto Rico is 3. Of those, all are living languages.
| English | [eng]
100,000 in Puerto Rico (2005 Crystal).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| Puerto Rican Sign Language | [psl]
Ethnic population: 8,000 to 40,000 deaf persons (Van Cleve 1986).
Alternate names: PRSL.
Dialects: Related to American Sign Language [ase].
Classification: Deaf sign language
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| Spanish | [spa]
3,440,000 in Puerto Rico (1996).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
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