Connecticut

Legal status of official English in Connecticut

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