Editing Asian Americans (section)

===Language===
In 2010, there were 2.8 million people (age 5 and older) who spoke one of the [[Chinese language]]s at home;<ref name="AHM2012" /> after the [[Spanish language]], it is the third most common language in the United States.<ref name="AHM2012">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff09.html |title=Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2012 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=March 21, 2012 |work=United States Census Bureau |publisher=United States Department of Commerce |access-date=January 12, 2013 |archive-date=January 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106171909/http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff09.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Other sizable [[Languages of Asia|Asian languages]] are [[Hindustani language|Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu)]], [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], and [[Korean language|Korean]], with all four having more than 1 million speakers in the United States.<ref name="AHM2012" />

In 2012, [[Alaska]], California, Hawaii, [[Illinois]], Massachusetts, [[Michigan]], [[Nevada]], New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington were publishing election material in Asian languages in accordance with the [[Voting Rights Act]];<ref name="TPratt18OCT12NYT" /> these languages include Tagalog, [[Mandarin Chinese]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], Spanish,<ref name="SpanishChinese">{{cite book|author1=Jonathan H. X. Lee|author2=Kathleen M. Nadeau|title=Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BrfLWdeISoC&pg=PA334|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-35066-5|pages=333–334|quote=Since the Philippines was colonized by Spain, Filipino Americans in general can speak and understand Spanish too.|access-date=September 28, 2017|archive-date=April 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425120133/https://books.google.com/books?id=9BrfLWdeISoC&pg=PA334|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Standard Hindi|Hindi]], and [[Bengali language|Bengali]].<ref name="TPratt18OCT12NYT">{{cite news |title=More Asian Immigrants Are Finding Ballots in Their Native Tongue |author=Timothy Pratt |location=Las Vegas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/politics/more-asian-immigrants-are-finding-ballots-in-their-native-tongue.html?_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 18, 2012 |access-date=January 12, 2013 |archive-date=December 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121225194150/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/politics/more-asian-immigrants-are-finding-ballots-in-their-native-tongue.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> Election materials were also available in [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Khmer language|Khmer]], [[Korean language|Korean]], and [[Thai language|Thai]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Five new Asian languages make their debut at the polls |author=Leslie Berestein Rojas |url=http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2012/11/06/10917/five-new-asian-languages-make-their-debut-polls/ |newspaper=KPCC |date=November 6, 2012 |access-date=January 12, 2013 |archive-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610202415/http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2012/11/06/10917/five-new-asian-languages-make-their-debut-polls/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A 2013 poll found that 48 percent of Asian Americans considered [[Ethnic media|media in their native language]] as their primary news source.<ref>{{cite news |title=Half of Asian Americans rely on ethnic media: poll |author=Shaun Tandon |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9a2fd2pl5VdCcAJ4QPD4ou3HsuQ?docId=CNG.bef0de9c35071a6327f04b90055f047a.71 |via=Google News |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |date=January 17, 2013 |access-date=January 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216042259/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9a2fd2pl5VdCcAJ4QPD4ou3HsuQ?docId=CNG.bef0de9c35071a6327f04b90055f047a.71 |archive-date= 16 February 2013 }}</ref>

The [[2000 United States census|2000 census]] found the more prominent languages of the Asian American community to include the Chinese languages ([[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese]], [[Taishanese]], and [[Hokkien]]), [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], [[Korean language|Korean]], Japanese, Hindi, [[Urdu]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]].<ref name="CensusLang">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-29.pdf |date=October 2003 |first1=Hyon B. |last1=Shin |first2=Rosalind |last2=Bruno |title=Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000: Census 2000 Brief|website=census.gov|access-date=November 22, 2017|archive-date=February 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218000958/http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-29.pdf|url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2008, the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese languages are all used in elections in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington state.<ref name="AsianLang">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080731133121/http://www.eac.gov/News/press/eac-issues-glossaries-of-election-terms-in-five-asian-languages/ EAC Issues Glossaries of Election Terms in Five Asian Languages  Translations to Make Voting More Accessible to a Majority of Asian American Citizens]". Election Assistance Commission. June 20, 2008. (Archived from [http://www.eac.gov/News/press/eac-issues-glossaries-of-election-terms-in-five-asian-languages/ the original] on July 31, 2008).</ref>