In 1981, and again in 1996, this state passed a statute declaring English to be the state’s official language.

Official Language Law of Virginia (1996)

CODE OF VIRGINIA, CHAPTER 829 (1996) 
CHAPTER 7. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

§7.1-42. English designated the official language of the Commonwealth.
English shall be designated as the official language of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Except as provided by law, no state agency or local government shall be required to provide and no state agency or local government shall be prohibited from providing any documents, information, literature or other written materials in any language other than English.

§22.1-212.1. Obligations of school boards.
Pursuant to §7.1-42, school boards shall have no obligation to teach the standard curriculum, except courses in foreign languages, in a language other than English. School boards shall endeavor to provide instruction in the English language which shall be designed to promote the education of students for whom English is a second language.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN VIRGINA

5,884,075	English
735,191	All languages other than English combined
316,274	Spanish or Spanish Creole
40,117	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
39,636	Korean
33,598	Tagalog
32,736	German
31,918	Vietnamese
29,837	Chinese
25,984	Arabic
21,164	African languages
19,199	Persian
15,250	Urdu
11,947	Hindi
10,099	Italian
9,147	Russian
8,019	Japanese
6,886	Greek
5,563	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
4,872	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
4,059	Gujarathi
3,738	Thai
3,515	Polish
3,407	Scandinavian languages
3,358	Serbo-Croatian
2,878	Laotian
2,665	French Creole
1,763	Hungarian
1,301	Hebrew
1,192	Armenian
1,069	Other Native North American languages
595	Yiddish
133	Navajo
59	Miao, Hmong