Legal Status of official English in Vermont
Vermont does not have an official English law. The state does not allow referenda or voter initiatives.
This state has the nation’s highest proportion of speakers of German, and Norwegian.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN VERMONT
540,767 | English | |
34,075 | All languages other than English combined | |
14,624 | French (incl. Patois, Cajun) | |
5,791 | Spanish or Spanish Creole | |
2,612 | German | |
1,600 | Serbo-Croatian | |
1,198 | Italian | |
977 | Polish | |
812 | Vietnamese | |
782 | Chinese | |
554 | Russian | |
415 | Scandinavian languages | |
332 | Japanese | |
323 | Korean | |
319 | Greek | |
292 | Portuguese or Portuguese Creole | |
262 | Arabic | |
214 | Hindi | |
198 | African languages | |
145 | Thai | |
140 | Tagalog | |
139 | Hebrew | |
114 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian | |
89 | Other Native North American languages | |
88 | Urdu | |
86 | Hungarian | |
80 | Laotian | |
66 | Persian | |
64 | Armenian | |
57 | Gujarathi | |
41 | Yiddish | |
25 | French Creole | |
0 | Navajo | |
0 | Miao, Hmong |