Ich tippe mal folgende:

• Utah
• Washington
• Maryland
• Maine
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• Oregon
• Wyoming
• Wisconsin

Die Karte sagt: Ein Treffer ist dabei.

Wyoming is right - German is the third most widely spoken language at home there.

(But not in Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin)

Eight more to go.

North Dakota and Indiana are correct.

(But not in Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin)

Six more to go.

Yes, people speak German at home in Ohio.

But not so much in Arizona, California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin

Five more states to guess where German is the 3rd most commonly spoken language.

Not a guess, but it's interesting to look at how the data has changed. On a map from 2014 (based on 2010 data), German was the third most commonly spoken language in 16 states! https://slate.com/culture/2014/05/language-ma...

I'm surprised how many states have changed in ten years. In some states I'm familiar with, I would guess that many of the German speakers were older and are dying, while the speakers of Somali or Vietnamese, e.g., are more recent immigrants. They would tend to be younger, having kids and passing the language along. Comparing the two maps, Arabic, with an influx of recent refugees, has displaced German in one state and French in another.

Maybe once this guessing game is over, Martin--cal would like to have people guess the states that switched from German as the third (or first) most commonly spoken language in 2010 to a different language in 2020.

Colorado is right, but not Massachusetts (Portuguese!) or Vermont (French).

Four left.

A double win! Montana and Idaho both. (Oregon had been guessed previously).

Only two left, but not Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin

Hi, I'm back. Thanks for your patience, and for the amusement. And no, it's not New York (Chinese), not Michigan (Hmong!), not Connecticut (Portuguese), not Alaska (“Aleut/Eskimo” they say – really a language family, not a single language--), and not Nebraska (Nepali – who would have guessed that!).

But Kentucky is right. Good sleuthing, Miss Anthropy!

That leaves just one more state in the US, not yet guessed, where German is the third most commonly spoken language at home. And, to summarize, it is not Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin...

♬♪♬ Ta-da! ♬♪♬ South Carolina is the tenth state!

(Chinese is the third language spoken in Missouri.) Once again, here's the map with the data: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-m...

Thanks for playing, everyone.

Just wondering what German forum users (in case anyone is still up in Germany at this hour) what you think is the second most common language spoken in homes in your town in Germany (or Austria or Switzerland)?

#23: Michigan does have a lot of German speakers. The number of Amish people has grown markedly since I moved back to Michigan about 30 years ago. However, German speakers are surely outnumbered by Arabic speakers.

So I have to correct Martin from #27. The language for Michigan is not Hmong, it's Arabic.

The 2014 map (using 2010) data had German spoken as the second most common language in North Dakota and the third most common language in Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, Georgian, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

Thanks for the interesting game, Martin.