Ohio does not have an official language. The state does allow referenda and voter initiatives to pass new statutes or to change the state’s constitution.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN OHIO

9,951,475	English
648,493	All languages other than English combined
213,147	Spanish or Spanish Creole
72,647	German
44,594	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
27,697	Italian
25,704	Chinese
22,647	Arabic
16,462	Polish
16,030	Russian
13,656	Greek
13,261	African languages
12,577	Serbo-Croatian
11,859	Hungarian
11,028	Korean
9,928	Japanese
9,002	Vietnamese
8,473	Tagalog
8,276	Hindi
4,233	Gujarathi
3,453	Hebrew
3,402	Laotian
3,162	Urdu
3,080	Persian
2,715	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
2,522	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
1,995	Scandinavian languages
1,927	Yiddish
1,854	Thai
1,073	Other Native North American languages
471	Armenian
421	French Creole
310	Miao, Hmong
242	Navajo