Editing Michigan (section)

===Languages===

In 2010, about 91.11% (8,507,947) of Michigan residents age five and older spoke only [[English language|English]] at home, while 2.93% (273,981) spoke [[Spanish language|Spanish]], 1.04% (97,559) [[Arabic]], 0.44% (41,189) [[German language|German]], 0.36% (33,648) [[Chinese language|Chinese]] (which includes [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]]), 0.31% (28,891) [[French language|French]], 0.29% (27,019) [[Polish language|Polish]], and [[Assyrian people#Language|Syriac languages]] (such as [[Neo-Aramaic languages|Modern Aramaic]] and [[Northeastern Neo-Aramaic]]) was spoken as a [[main language]] by 0.25% (23,420) of the population over the age of five. In total, 8.89% (830,281) of Michigan's population age five and older spoke a [[mother language]] other than English.<ref name="MLA Data">{{cite web |url = http://www.mla.org/map_data |title = Michigan |publisher = [[Modern Language Association]] |access-date = August 15, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071201170638/http://www.mla.org/map_data |archive-date = December 1, 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> Since 2021, 90.1% of residents aged five and older spoke only English at home, and Spanish was the second-most spoken language with 2.9% of the population speaking it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2021 Languages Spoken at Home |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Michigan+languages&tid=ACSST1Y2021.S1601 |access-date=June 29, 2023 |website=United States Census Bureau |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629154927/https://data.census.gov/table?q=Michigan%20languages&tid=ACSST1Y2021.S1601 |url-status=live }}</ref>