Nebraska

Legal Status of official English in Nebraska

Official English law in Nebraska

English became the official language of Nebraska in 1920, when 63% of voters enacted it via constitutional amendment.

NEBRASKA STATE CONSTITUTION,
ARTICLE I, SECTION 27 – English Language to be Official 
(1920)
The English language is hereby declared to be the official language of this State, and all official proceedings, records and publications shall be in such language, and the common school branches shall be taught in said language in public, private, denominational and parochial schools.


 

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN NEBRASKA

1,469,046 English
125,654 All languages other than English combined
77,655 Spanish or Spanish Creole
8,865 German
5,958 Vietnamese
3,631 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
2,409 Chinese
1,628 Arabic
1,559 Russian
1,472 African languages
1,420 Polish
1,419 Italian
1,311 Tagalog
1,274 Japanese
1,234 Other Native North American languages
1,192 Korean
907 Serbo-Croatian
900 Laotian
809 Scandinavian languages
715 Persian
687 Hindi
381 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
347 Thai
272 Greek
245 Urdu
182 Gujarathi
169 Hungarian
138 Hebrew
122 Navajo
96 Yiddish
85 French Creole
50 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
31 Miao, Hmong
12 Armenian