id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8008 Russian language in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 2871 647 73 Russian language in the United States Wikipedia California came second, with 118,382 speakers, followed by New Jersey (38,566), Illinois (38,053), Massachusetts (32,580), Pennsylvania (32,189), and Washington (31,339), Florida (19,729), Maryland (17,584), and Oregon (16,344).[12] In terms of viability, the state of the language in the United States is much better compared to some other European languages, although a considerable minority of the children born to Russian-speaking parents are raised as monolingual English speakers. The first Russian-language newspaper in the United States, Svoboda (Freedom), was published in 1867–1871; it was known as the Alaska Herald in English. ^ a b "LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME BY ABILITY TO SPEAK ENGLISH FOR THE POPULATION 5 YEARS AND OVER Universe: Population 5 years and over more information 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". "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". North-Central American / Upper Midwestern English ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8008.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8008.txt