Hawaii

Legal Status of official English in Hawaii

In 1978, this state made English and Hawaiian its official languages.

Official English Law in Hawaii
HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE XV, SECTION 4, OFFICIAL LANGUAGES (1978)
English and Hawaiian shall be the official languages of Hawaii, except that Hawaiian shall be required for public acts and transactions only as provided by law.


LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN HAWAII

832,226 English
302,125 All languages other than English combined
60,967 Tagalog
56,225 Japanese
29,363 Chinese
18,820 Spanish or Spanish Creole
18,337 Korean
8,270 Vietnamese
3,986 German
3,310 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
1,920 Laotian
1,496 Thai
1,238 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
826 Italian
729 Arabic
727 Scandinavian languages
432 Russian
359 African languages
274 Polish
242 Hungarian
203 Greek
200 Hindi
192 Persian
162 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
147 Other Native North American languages
128 French Creole
127 Urdu
118 Hebrew
87 Serbo-Croatian
59 Armenian
58 Navajo
41 Yiddish
30 Miao, Hmong
27 Gujarathi