Non-English languages 'part of the national fabric'
Flickr photo by Justin Taylor"I Voted" stickers in English, Tagalog and VietnameseThe Bureau's findings provide "illustrative evidence of the continuing and growing role of non-English languages as part of the national fabric," says the report. "Fueled by both long-term historic immigration patterns and more recent ones, the language diversity of the country has increased over the past few decades."
Based on the U.S.'s current immgration trends, the "pattern of language diversity will also likely continue," the report concludes.
Among the more than 55 million Americans who speak a language other than English at home, roughly 34.5
