Editing Languages of the United States (section)

===Dutch (142,000 speakers)===
[[File:Dutch USC2000 PHS.svg|thumb|Distribution of U.S. households that speak Dutch at home in 2000]]
In a 1990 demographic consensus, 3% of surveyed citizens claimed to be of Dutch descent. Modern estimates place the [[Dutch American]] population (with total or partial Dutch heritage) at 3.1&nbsp;million, or 0.93%,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |year=2021 |title=Table B04006 - People Reporting Ancestry - 2021 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=010XX00US,$0400000&tid=ACSDT1Y2021.B04006 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> lagging just a bit behind [[Norwegian Americans]] and [[Swedish Americans]],<ref name=":0" /> while 885,000<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |year=2021 |title=Table B04004 - People Reporting Single Ancestry - 2021 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates |url=https://data.census.gov/table?t=Ancestry&tid=ACSDT1Y2021.B04004 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>&nbsp;Americans claimed total Dutch heritage.

An estimated 141,580 people, or 0.0486%,<ref name=":4">{{Cite web   |title=Detailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over: 2009-2013 |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2013/demo/2009-2013-lang-tables.html |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=Census.gov |ref=census0913}}</ref> in the United States still speak the Dutch language, 
including its [[Flemish dialects|Flemish variant]], at home as of 2013. This is in addition to the 23,010 and 510 speakers, respectively, of the [[Afrikaans]] and [[West Frisian language|West-Frisian]] languages, both closely related to Dutch.<ref name=":4" /> Dutch speakers in the U.S. are concentrated mainly in [[California]] (23,500), [[Florida]] (10,900), [[Pennsylvania]] (9,900), [[Ohio]] (9,600), New York (8,700) and [[Michigan]] (6,600, residing almost entirely in the city of [[Holland, Michigan|Holland]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mla.org/map_data_results&mode=lang_tops&SRVY_YEAR=2010&lang_id=610|title=Dutch : Source: American Community Survey : 5-Year Estimates, Public Use Microdata Sample, 2006–2010|publisher=Mla.org|access-date=January 18, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113032530/http://www.mla.org/map_data_results%26mode%3Dlang_tops%26SRVY_YEAR%3D2010%26lang_id%3D610|archive-date=November 13, 2013}}</ref> In 2021, 95.3% of the total Dutch-American population aged 5 years and over spoke only English at home.<ref name=":32">{{Cite web |year=2021 |title=Table S0201 - (Dutch) Selected Population Profile in the United States - 2021 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Dutch&t=Language+Spoken+at+Home |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

====Low Dutch====
{{further|Jersey Dutch language}}
{{further|Mohawk Dutch}}

There has been a Dutch presence in North America since establishment of 17th-century colony of [[New Netherland]] (parts of New York, New Jersey and Delaware), where Dutch was spoken by the [[New Netherlander]], the original settlers, and their descendants. It was still spoken in the region at the time of the American Revolution and thereafter. For example, [[Alexander Hamilton]]'s wife, [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton|Eliza Hamilton]], attended a Dutch-language church during their marriage. African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist [[Sojourner Truth]] (born "Isabella Baumfree") was a native speaker of Dutch. [[Martin Van Buren]], the first president born in the United States following its independence from Great Britain, spoke Dutch as his [[native language]]. He is the only U.S. president whose [[first language]] was not English.

Vernacular dialects of Dutch were spoken in northeastern New Jersey (Bergen, Hudson, Passaic county) and the Capital District of New York until they gradually declined throughout the 20th century.