Kentucky

Legal Status of official English in Kentucky

Kentucky Official English Law

Section 2.013 – State Language (1984)
English is designated as the official state language of Kentucky.


LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN KENTUCKY

3,771,003 English
382,364 All languages other than English combined
194,314 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
105,189 Spanish or Spanish Creole
23,326 Vietnamese
8,047 German
5,731 Chinese
5,489 Arabic
4,470 French Creole
3,730 Italian
3,335 Tagalog
2,402 Korean
2,278 African languages
1,810 Japanese
1,564 Gujarathi
1,523 Greek
1,387 Laotian
1,365 Hindi
1,306 Urdu
1,302 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
936 Russian
914 Persian
806 Serbo-Croatian
710 Scandinavian languages
708 Thai
679 Other Native North American languages
480 Polish
388 Hebrew
382 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
350 Hungarian
141 Armenian
100 Navajo
75 Yiddish
0 Miao, Hmong