National Language In The United States

Living in the United States you quickly realize that everyone speaks, writes and reads English. Other languages exist but clearly English is the main language in the United States by a good margin. Despite English clearly being the dominant language, United States has never picked an officially national language which is a questionable decision. It is the year 2016, were we established in 1776 and we still do not have a national language which is the reason for this writing which will touch on the topics of which languages exist in the United States, what would happen if we picked a national language and lastly why we have not picked one up to this point.
According to WorldAtlas.com (2015) currently there are 25 different language that exist in the United States with English …show more content…
The reason we have so many different languages is because we are the country of immigrants, with people from all walks of life but Spanish is the closest second language because of the Central America influence. The two most shockingly spoken languages are German and Hebrew. The reasons behind those being popular languages is because Germans flooded in when the New World was discovered and the United States has the largest Jewish population outside Israel. Lastly, Chinese being third is only because it is needed for business trade. With that many different languages floating in the United States it’s hard to be able to support all of them which is why establishing a main one is important
This process would take several months, maybe years to get through the judicial system and finally established but would be well worth it in the end. Enforcing English as our language would encourage new migrants to learn the language which would unify America which is the end goal. According to Brice (2014) making English the national language would save $15 million in translators and bilingual