Vermont

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