Official English in Wyoming (1996)

§8-6-101. English as official language of Wyoming.

(a) English shall be designated as the official language of Wyoming. Except as otherwise provided by law, no state agency or political subdivision of the state shall be required to provide any documents,information, literature or other written materials in any language other than English.

(b) A state agency or political subdivision or its officers or employees may act in a language other than the English language for any of the following purposes:

• (i) To provide information orally to individuals in the course of delivering services to the general public

• (ii) To comply with federal law;

• (iii) To protect the public health or safety;

• (iv) To protect the rights of parties and witnesses in a civil or criminal action in a court or in an administrative proceeding;

• (v) To provide instruction in foreign and Native American language courses;

• (vi) To provide instruction designed to aid students with limited English proficiency so they can make a timely transition to use of the English language in the public schools;

• (vii) To promote international commerce, trade or tourism;

• (viii) To use terms of art or phrases from languages other than the English language in documents.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN WYOMING

433,324	English
29,485	All languages other than English combined
18,606	Spanish or Spanish Creole
2,382	German
1,795	Other Native North American languages
1,618	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
518	Japanese
512	Chinese
363	Italian
358	Scandinavian languages
347	Korean
340	Tagalog
238	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
199	Polish
181	Greek
180	Navajo
172	Russian
142	Arabic
124	Gujarathi
103	African languages
99	Serbo-Croatian
58	Urdu
49	Vietnamese
46	Thai
44	Hindi
33	Hebrew
26	Hungarian
9	Laotian
6	French Creole
5	Armenian
0	Miao, Hmong
0	Yiddish
0	Persian
0	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian