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United States has no official language at the federal level, but the predominant language, which is written in the constitution, laws and which made ​​the tasks of government is English. Also some federal laws English.  implicitly standardize the languagespoken, however, hundreds of other languages ​​and dialects,Spanish being the most common among them, language also has official recognition in some parts of the Southwest.

Traditionally, large cities have been around neighborhoods where the first generation immigrants from a particular countryare grouped and then successive generations are leaving the place. A notable exception is Chinatowns, "Chinatown", the mostimportant of these which is in the city of San Francisco California.After decades of repression, the languages ​​of Native Americans, or native American Indian languages ​​are beingpreserved and taught within the reserves.A special case within the United States is the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which was the sole official language is Spanish,and then entered the English language.