Telugu is the US language that is growing the fastest.

Hindi is the most spoken South Asian tongue in the United States, followed by Urdu, Gujarati, and Telugu. More than 400 thousand native Telugu people called the United States home last year. An American think group found that Telugu was the most rapidly expanding tongue in the country. According to a film posted online by the World Economic Forum, the percentage of Americans who can understand Telugu increased by 86% between 2010 and 2017. Despite its prominence in India (the country's fourth most spoken language), the BBC states that Telugu does not rank among the top 20 most spoken languages in the United States besides English.

This area of India has produced many successful immigrants. Two prominent business leaders in the tech industry, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe Systems, call Hyderabad home. Young people in this state are so fixated on moving to the United States that a shrine is known for assisting worshippers in obtaining work permits in the West. Second-generation Telugu households are having an impact beyond the traditional 9-to-5 computer industry.

Miss America 2013 Nina Davuluri, originally from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, made history when she became the first Indian-American to win the title. She is a medical doctor's daughter whose parents emigrated to the United States from Telugu in the 1980s. Telugu-speaking pupils have dominated spelling bees, taking first place multiple times at the Scripps National Spelling Contest.

As more and more people from India settled in the United States, Telugu is one of many spoken there that is getting prominence. Indian dialects' stranglehold.

Though their numbers are lower, those who understand Bengali and Tamil are among the fastest-growing. Both the former and the latter saw increases of 55%.

Even though Telugu's popularity has increased faster, Hindi is still the most spoken Asian tongue in the United States. A total of 863,000 people speak it, but compared to the 41 million who know Spanish, it is a tiny minority. According to CIS, 21.8% of Americans are proficient in languages other than English at home. This percentage jumps dramatically to almost half in the country's five biggest towns.