Editing North Carolina (section)

===Languages===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:1em; float:center"
|+ '''Most common languages other than English spoken in North Carolina'''
|-
! Language !! Percentage of population<br /><small>(in 2010)</small><ref name="MLA Data" />
|-
| Spanish || 6.93%
|-
| French || 0.32%
|-
| German || 0.27%
|-
| Chinese (including [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]]) || 0.27%
|-
| Vietnamese || 0.24%
|-
| Arabic || 0.17%
|-
| Korean || 0.16%
|-
| [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] || 0.13%
|-
| [[Hindi language|Hindi]] || 0.12%
|-
| [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], Russian, and [[Hmong language|Hmong]] (tied) || 0.11%
|-
| Italian and Japanese (tied)|| 0.08%
|-
| [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] || 0.01%<ref>{{cite web
| title = Cherokee
| website = Ethnologue
| access-date = April 11, 2014
| url = http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150730231052/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr
| archive-date = July 30, 2015
| url-status = live
}}</ref>
|}

North Carolina is home to a spectrum of different dialects of [[Southern American English]] and [[Appalachian English]].

In 2010, 89.66% (7,750,904) of North Carolina residents age five and older spoke English at home as a [[primary language]], while 6.93% (598,756) spoke Spanish, 0.32% (27,310) French, 0.27% (23,204) German, and Chinese (which includes [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]]) was spoken as a [[main language]] by 0.27% (23,072) of the population five and older. In total, 10.34% (893,735) of North Carolina'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=North Carolina|publisher=[[Modern Language Association]]|access-date=August 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201170638/http://www.mla.org/map_data|archive-date=December 1, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, 87.7% of the population aged 5 and older spoke English and 12.3% spoke another language. The most common non-English language was Spanish at the 2019 [[American Community Survey]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Languages spoken at home in 2019|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=North%20Carolina%20languages&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S1601|access-date=June 21, 2021|website=data.census.gov|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204119/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=North%20Carolina%20languages&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S1601|url-status=live}}</ref>