Legal Status of official English in North Dakota
Official English Law in North Dakota
§54-02-13 – English As Official Language (1987)
The English language is the official language of the state of North Dakota.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN NORTH DAKOTA
| 565,130 | English | |
| 37,976 | All languages other than English combined | |
| 14,931 | German | |
| 8,263 | Spanish or Spanish Creole | |
| 3,193 | Scandinavian languages | |
| 2,536 | Other Native North American languages | |
| 1,597 | French (incl. Patois, Cajun) | |
| 825 | Serbo-Croatian | |
| 459 | African languages | |
| 452 | Polish | |
| 437 | Chinese | |
| 331 | Russian | |
| 330 | Tagalog | |
| 291 | Vietnamese | |
| 261 | Arabic | |
| 221 | Korean | |
| 220 | Hindi | |
| 179 | Italian | |
| 160 | Portuguese or Portuguese Creole | |
| 151 | Japanese | |
| 122 | Greek | |
| 93 | Persian | |
| 89 | Thai | |
| 58 | Urdu | |
| 52 | Gujarathi | |
| 47 | Navajo | |
| 36 | Hungarian | |
| 36 | Laotian | |
| 25 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian | |
| 22 | French Creole | |
| 20 | Hebrew | |
| 9 | Armenian | |
| 7 | Yiddish | |
| 0 | Miao, Hmong |