4 of the 6 fastest-growing languages in the US of Indian origin

If you followed the 2016 US presidential election run-in, you wouldn’t have missed Donald Trump’s proclamation “Ab ki baar Trump sarkar” (Trump government this time), in one of his campaign ads. By all measures, he didn’t get his intonation or pronunciation right but the message to a vast majority of his target audience was loud and clear. A significant number of his voter base speaks Hindi after all.

Hindi was the second-fastest growing language in the United States between 2010 and 2017, according to the America Community Survey. The growth of the language, spoken predominantly in north India, was however, topped by another Indian language — Telugu.

Telugu, the Dravidian vernacular of the Telugu people spoken mostly in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the Puducherry, emerged as the fastest-growing language in the United States between 2010 and 2017, nearly doubling the number of speakers with an 86 percent growth.