Official English Law of Tennessee

TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED,
Section 4-1-404 -English and Legal Language (1984)
English is hereby established as the official and legal language of Tennessee. All communications and publications, including ballots, produced by governmental entities in Tennessee shall be in English, and instruction in public schools and colleges of Tennessee shall be conducted in English unless the nature of the course would require otherwise.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN TENNESSEE

5,059,404	English
256,516	All languages other than English combined
133,931	Spanish or Spanish Creole
20,267	German
17,557	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
7,492	Chinese
6,625	Vietnamese
6,550	Korean
6,482	Arabic
4,496	Laotian
4,480	African languages
4,423	Japanese
3,386	Tagalog
3,134	Italian
2,928	Russian
2,494	Gujarathi
2,023	Hindi
1,940	Persian
1,765	Serbo-Croatian
1,413	Greek
1,398	Polish
1,319	Urdu
1,293	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
1,259	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
1,159	Thai
913	Other Native North American languages
823	Hebrew
613	Scandinavian languages
564	Hungarian
510	French Creole
327	Yiddish
263	Miao, Hmong
113	Armenian
49	Navajo