Five percent of US families don`t speak English: report

Of the 111.6 million households in the United States, each with an average 2.61 family members, 4.8 percent were "linguistically isolated," meaning everyone aged 14 or older in the households had difficulty speaking English, a report issued by the Census Bureau was quoted by AFP as saying.

In California, the most populous state, the ratio of linguistically isolated households rose to one in 10.

Spanish was spoken in 27.6 percent of linguistically isolated households, followed by Asian languages at 27.4 percent and languages besides Spanish from the Indo-European family, at 16.5 percent.

Around 44 million Hispanics live in the United States, representing around 15 percent of the US population of nearly 303 million.

The data also showed that one in five US citizens over the age of five speak a language other than English at home, although the majority of them (60 percent) spoke English very well.