According to sources from an online video by the World Economic Forum, Telugu is the fastest growing language in the US, says a study by an American think tank. Meanwhile the number of US residents speaking Telugu rose by 86% between 2010 and 2017. Accordingly Telugu, the fourth most spoken language in India, is still outside the top 20 of the most widely spoken languages other than English in the US.
Accordingly the video referred to a study by the US based Centre for Immigration, which analyzed census data to look at the pace at which languages were being spoken in America. Furthermore the study on languages spoken in the US used data from the American Community Survey and compared the number of people who said they spoke a language other than English at home in 2010 and 2017.
Previously there were more than 400,000 Telugu speakers in the US nearly double the number in 2010. Out of the top 10 fastest growing languages in America, seven are from South Asia. Hence the rise of Telugu was connected to the links forged between Hyderabad and the US engineering and technology industries, Prasad Kunisetty, founder of the Telugu People Foundation, a non-profit organization in the US. Moreover notable US based Telugu speakers include the first Indian-American Miss America Nina Davuluri and the current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
