Legal Status of official English in North Dakota
Official English Law in North Dakota
§54-02-13 – English As Official Language (1987)
The English language is the official language of the state of North Dakota.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN NORTH DAKOTA
565,130 | English | ![]() ![]() |
37,976 | All languages other than English combined | ![]() |
14,931 | German | ![]() |
8,263 | Spanish or Spanish Creole | ![]() |
3,193 | Scandinavian languages | ![]() |
2,536 | Other Native North American languages | ![]() |
1,597 | French (incl. Patois, Cajun) | ![]() |
825 | Serbo-Croatian | ![]() |
459 | African languages | ![]() |
452 | Polish | ![]() |
437 | Chinese | ![]() |
331 | Russian | ![]() |
330 | Tagalog | ![]() |
291 | Vietnamese | ![]() |
261 | Arabic | ![]() |
221 | Korean | ![]() |
220 | Hindi | ![]() |
179 | Italian | ![]() |
160 | Portuguese or Portuguese Creole | ![]() |
151 | Japanese | ![]() |
122 | Greek | ![]() |
93 | Persian | ![]() |
89 | Thai | ![]() |
58 | Urdu | ![]() |
52 | Gujarathi | ![]() |
47 | Navajo | ![]() |
36 | Hungarian | ![]() |
36 | Laotian | ![]() |
25 | Mon-Khmer, Cambodian | ![]() |
22 | French Creole | ![]() |
20 | Hebrew | ![]() |
9 | Armenian | ![]() |
7 | Yiddish | ![]() |
0 | Miao, Hmong | ![]() |