Iowa Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Language=== English is the most common language in Iowa, being the sole language spoken by 91.1% of the population. Less common languages include sign language and indigenous languages. About 2.5% of the general population use sign language as of 2017, while indigenous languages are spoken by about 0.5% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=language%20spoken&g=0400000US19&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S1601&hidePreview=true|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=data.census.gov|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503175224/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=language%20spoken&g=0400000US19&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S1601&hidePreview=true|url-status=live}}</ref><!--Former cite was:<ref name="Language">{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/states/Iowa-Languages.html|title=Iowa-Languages|publisher=City Data|access-date=July 28, 2010}}</ref> Currently on the blacklist. Removed in the course of removing vandalism. --> [[William Labov]] and colleagues, in the monumental ''Atlas of North American English''<ref>Labov, W., S. Ash, and C. Boberg, ''Atlas of North American English.'' Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. [http://www.mouton-online.com/anae.php Mouton-online.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226132508/http://www.mouton-online.com/anae.php |date=December 26, 2007 }}</ref> found the English spoken in Iowa divides into multiple linguistic regions. Natives of northern Iowa—including [[Sioux City]], [[Fort Dodge]], and the [[Waterloo, Iowa|Waterloo]] region—tend to speak the dialect linguists call [[North Central American English]], which is also found in [[North Dakota|North]] and [[South Dakota]], [[Minnesota]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Michigan]]. Natives of central and southern Iowa—including such cities as [[Council Bluffs, Iowa|Council Bluffs]], [[Davenport, Iowa|Davenport]], Des Moines, and [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]]—tend to speak the [[Midland American English|North Midland]] dialect also found in eastern Nebraska, central Illinois, and central Indiana.<ref>{{cite web| title=Atlas of North American English| publisher=The University of Pennsylvania| url=http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/maps/MapsNC/Map1NC.html| access-date=January 5, 2008| archive-date=January 17, 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117210737/http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/maps/MapsNC/Map1NC.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Natives of East-Central Iowa—including cities such as [[Cedar Rapids]], [[Dubuque, Iowa|Dubuque]], and [[Clinton, Iowa|Clinton]] tend to speak with the [[Northern Cities Vowel Shift]], a dialect that extends from this area and east across the [[Great Lakes Region]].<ref>Labov, W., Ash, S., & Boberg, C. (2006). The atlas of North American English: Phonetics, phonology, and sound change: a multimedia reference tool. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</ref> After English, Spanish is the second-most-common language spoken in Iowa, with 120,000 people in Iowa of Hispanic or Latino origin and 47,000 people born in Latin America.<ref>2000 U.S. Census: [https://www.census.gov Census.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961227012639/https://www.census.gov/ |date=December 27, 1996 }}</ref> The third-most-common language is German, spoken by 17,000 people in Iowa;<!-- <ref name="Language" /> Blacklisted --> two notable German dialects used in Iowa include [[Amana German]] spoken around the [[Amana Colonies]], and [[Pennsylvania German language|Pennsylvania German]], spoken among the [[Amish]] in Iowa. The [[Babel Proclamation]] of 1918 banned the speaking of German in public. Around [[Pella, Iowa|Pella]], residents of Dutch descent once spoke the [[Pella Dutch dialect]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page