Multilingual Chicago

Recently I wrote a post in another forum listing all the languages which I had personal overheard spoken in Chicago. I thought I'd reproduce that here, but with the added value of trying to rank the languages roughly according to frequency.

Daily

English (American, AAVE)
Russian
Spanish (Latin American)


Over the Course of a Week

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Chinese (Putonghua)
French
German
Hebrew
Korean


Over the Course of a Month

Amharic
ASL
Chinese (Cantonese)
Hindi/Urdu
Japanese
Polish
Thai
Vietnamese


Over the Course of a Year

Arabic
Aramaic
Bengali
Dutch
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Igbo
Italian
Khmer
Lao
Latvian
Panjabi
Persian
Portuguese
Rumanian
Somali
Tagalog
Turkish
Ukrainian
Wolof


A Least Once in a Decade

Belizean Kriol
Catalan
Hungarian
Irish
Malayalam
Mayan
Swedish
Schwyzertüütsch
Teochiu
Welsh