Legal Status of official English in Kentucky
Kentucky Official English Law
Section 2.013 – State Language (1984)
English is designated as the official state language of Kentucky.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN KENTUCKY
3,771,003 | English | ![]() ![]() |
382,364 | All languages other than English combined | ![]() ![]() |
194,314 | French (incl. Patois, Cajun) | ![]() ![]() |
105,189 | Spanish or Spanish Creole | ![]() |
23,326 | Vietnamese | ![]() |
8,047 | German | ![]() |
5,731 | Chinese | ![]() |
5,489 | Arabic | ![]() |
4,470 | French Creole | ![]() |
3,730 | Italian | ![]() |
3,335 | Tagalog | ![]() |
2,402 | Korean | ![]() |
2,278 | African languages | ![]() |
1,810 | Japanese | ![]() |
1,564 | Gujarathi | ![]() |
1,523 | Greek | ![]() |
1,387 | Laotian | ![]() |
1,365 | Hindi | ![]() |
1,306 | Urdu | ![]() |
1,302 | Portuguese or Portuguese Creole | ![]() |
936 | Russian | ![]() |
914 | Persian | ![]() |
806 | Serbo-Croatian | ![]() |
710 | Scandinavian languages | ![]() |
708 | Thai | ![]() |
679 | Other Native North American languages | ![]() |
480 | Polish | ![]() |
388 | Hebrew | ![]() |
382 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian | ![]() |
350 | Hungarian | ![]() |
141 | Armenian | ![]() |
100 | Navajo | ![]() |
75 | Yiddish | ![]() |
0 | Miao, Hmong | ![]() |