Connecticut currently has no official English law, but in 2002, Connecticut’s legislature ended the state’s bilingual education program, in favor of English-based education.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN CONNECTICUT

2,600,601	English
583,913	All languages other than English combined
268,044	Spanish or Spanish Creole
50,891	Italian
42,947	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
38,492	Polish
30,667	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
15,782	Chinese
14,310	German
9,445	Greek
8,807	Russian
7,856	French Creole
6,598	Vietnamese
5,172	Arabic
5,038	Tagalog
4,860	Hindi
4,528	Korean
3,969	Hungarian
3,829	Japanese
3,656	African languages
3,535	Scandinavian languages
3,354	Gujarathi
3,310	Urdu
3,038	Laotian
2,543	Serbo-Croatian
2,159	Hebrew
2,043	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
1,766	Persian
1,710	Yiddish
971	Armenian
781	Thai
229	Other Native North American languages
116	Miao, Hmong
42	Navajo