North Dakota

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