Editing Languages of the United States (section)

===Polish and Silesian===
As of 2013, around 580,000 Americans spoke Polish at home.<ref name="census.gov"/> The [[Polish language]] is very common in the [[Chicago metropolitan area]]. Chicago's third largest [[white ethnic]] groups are [[Polish American|those of Polish descent]], after [[German Americans|German]] and [[Irish Americans|Irish]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_5YR_B04006&prodType=table |title=American FactFinder - Results |access-date=July 27, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214060657/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_5YR_B04006&prodType=table |archive-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref> The [[Polish people]] and the Polish language in Chicago were very prevalent in the early years of the city, and today the 650,000 Poles in [[Chicago]] make up one of the largest ethnically [[Polish diaspora|Polish populations in the world]], comparable to the city of [[Wrocław]], the fourth largest city in Poland. That makes it one of the most important centers of [[Polish diaspora|Polonia]] and the Polish language in the United States, a fact that the city celebrates every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in [[Jefferson Park, Chicago|Jefferson Park]].<ref>{{Citation
 |url          = http://www.usaweekend.com/05_issues/050515/050515travel_diverse.html#chicago
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 |archive-date = December 28, 2017
 |title        = America the diverse: Chicago's Polish neighborhoods
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 |date         = May 15, 2005
 |access-date  = July 4, 2008
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}}</ref>

====Texas Silesian====
{{further|Texas Silesian}}
[[Texas Silesian]], a dialect of the [[Silesian language]] (itself controversially considered a branch of Polish by some linguists), has been used by Texas [[Silesians]] in American settlements from 1852 to the present.