do have a point Just thought I d add a comment here from the Canadian perspective perhaps how we handle this issue may have relevance Unlike in America we have federally mandated official languages namely English and French In America though various states and localities have stated official languages usually English it is probably most accurate to state that the de facto language is English However in Canada in various regions particularly in the North there are what is called on the Canada page recognized regional languages These include Cree Dene Inuktitut etc If there was a consensus to do this and I can accept that given the sensitive nature of the issue of language currently in America this may be lacking one might note in the box since there is no official language that English is the de facto official language with recognized regional languages in various states and territories namely Spanish Hawaiian Samoan Chamorro Carolinian and French Oh and to add to the rather odd remark above about Montreal Identifying the existence of multiple de facto languages is more appropriate for places like Montreal In most of the United States there isn t that same degree of bilingualism this is rather misleading There is no issue of de facto language in Canada there are simply put official languages and recognized languages Various regions will be de facto English or French or Chinese or Polish Portuguese Ukranian like my Toronto neighbourhood The issue in Canada is not the level of bilingualism per se it is what are official languages and what are recognized languages Later when lists of languages spoken are given then we see the various percentages of speakers of particular languages In America s case lacking an official language per se English is de facto with the above mentioned recognized regional languages The territories asideit s such a headache accommodating our empireHawaiian is the only language that has a legal status comparable to Canada s recognized regional languages The recognition of Spanish by New Mexico and French by Louisiana is of a less formal more purely practical order I think the general language of the infobox note as it stands adequately addresses the matter there with greater detail provided in the appropriate article section on Language In defense of my rather odd remark I wasn t making a statement about the legal status of any language in Canada or really even addressing the issue in Canada I was merely using Montreal as an example of a place where there are multiple languages spoken city wide and are hence de facto for the city Regardless of their official statuses Montreal is is a place where there truly are two de facto languages because of the degree to which they are both spoken and there aren t many of those places in the world You re conflating my local example with your national politics If English were indeed the official language of America I d agree But since it isn t it seems appropriate to note those recognized languages Maybe Hawaiian is the only one going by states or others should be included if we are talking territories etc But when something is de facto it by definition is outside the normal legally defined boundaries Yet several other languages within America do have legal definition Which is why it seems a little odd to exclude them from the box since they have legal status Be interested to hear other people s perspectives here Mine is this English is widely recognized as the de facto language of the country Spanish is the second most common language spoken in the country but is the official language nowhere again leaving the territories aside There are two and only two official languages within the integral United States English in at least twenty eight states Hawaiian in one state Hawaii where English is also official This would imply an adjustment of the infobox to read something like National language English de facto Official state languages English 28 or more states Hawaiian Hawaii Other common language