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Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York City, and other areas of the New York metropolitan area, are home to by far the largest Russian population in the United States. The Russian American population is reported to be 3.13 million. Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the U.S. Census.
Russian enjoys minority status in some two dozen countriesâincluding the US. Major Russian enclaves are in San Francisco and the Brighton Beach area of New York City. So now you know! In fact, the next time that someone asks you how many languages are spoken in the US, you can say, âThatâs easyâ381.â. Sources: âLanguage Use in the United States: 2011.â American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau.