New Jersey

Legal Status of official English in New Jersey

New Jersey has no official English law.


LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN NEW JERSEY

5,854,578 English
2,001,690 All languages other than English combined
967,741 Spanish or Spanish Creole
116,365 Italian
84,345 Chinese
74,663 Polish
72,870 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
66,851 Tagalog
55,340 Korean
47,324 Gujarathi
47,225 French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
47,052 Arabic
41,025 German
38,566 Russian
31,395 Hindi
28,783 French Creole
26,566 Greek
21,514 African languages
18,733 Urdu
14,988 Hebrew
13,310 Vietnamese
12,432 Japanese
11,229 Hungarian
10,420 Serbo-Croatian
9,149 Yiddish
6,982 Persian
6,622 Armenian
5,035 Scandinavian languages
1,985 Thai
716 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
522 Other Native North American languages
480 Laotian
42 Navajo
0 Miao, Hmong