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These are the languages U.S. patients speak at home, and Opalite covers each one in seconds.
- SpanishMost requestedMost requested41.2 million speak it at homeMexicanEuropean (Castilian)ArgentinianCaribbeanPuerto RicanDominicanColombianGuatemalan
- ChineseMost requestedMost requested3.5 million speak it at homeMandarin (Simplified)Mandarin (Traditional)CantoneseHokkien (Min Nan)
- TagalogMost requestedMost requested1.7 million speak it at homeManilaCebuano
- VietnameseMost requestedMost requested1.5 million speak it at homeNorthernCentralSouthern
- ArabicMost requestedMost requested1.3 million speak it at homeEgyptianLevantineGulfYemeniModern Standard
- FrenchMost requestedMost requested1.2 million speak it at homeMetropolitanCanadian (Quebec)African
- KoreanMost requestedMost requested1.1 million speak it at homeStandardSeoul DialectJeju Dialect
- RussianMost requestedMost requested984,000 speak it at homeStandardSouthern
- HindiMost requestedMost requested875,100 speak it at homeStandardAwadhiBraj Bhasha
- German871,300 speak it at homeStandardSwissAustrian
- Haitian CreoleMost requestedMost requested867,500 speak it at home
- PortugueseMost requestedMost requested841,300 speak it at homeBrazilianEuropeanAfrican
- Italian547,500 speak it at homeStandardSicilianNorthern
- Polish529,300 speak it at home
- Urdu499,800 speak it at home
- Japanese460,300 speak it at homeStandardKansaiOkinawan
- Persian449,100 speak it at homeIranian (Farsi)Dari (Afghan )Tajik
- Gujarati435,700 speak it at home
- Telugu433,300 speak it at home
- BengaliMost requestedMost requested373,200 speak it at homeStandardSylhetiChittagonian
- Tamil311,100 speak it at home
- Greek262,600 speak it at home
- Armenian241,600 speak it at homeEasternWestern
- Hebrew221,400 speak it at homeModernSephardic
- Amharic220,000 speak it at home
- Nepali198,300 speak it at home
- Yiddish194,957 speak it at homeEastern (Litvish)Central (Poylish)Western
- Malayalam187,500 speak it at home
- Ukrainian184,000 speak it at home
- Romanian176,800 speak it at home
- Thai164,800 speak it at homeCentralNorthernSouthern
- Albanian163,000 speak it at home
- Somali159,913 speak it at homeStandardMaay
- Turkish152,700 speak it at homeStandardCypriot
- Swahili147,100 speak it at homeTanzanianKenyanCongo
- Dutch137,000 speak it at home
- LaoDocument translation
- Marathi107,300 speak it at home
- Bosnian107,000 speak it at home
- Burmese95,320 speak it at home
- Serbian80,360 speak it at home
- Kannada76,770 speak it at home
- Indonesian75,360 speak it at homeStandardJakarta
- Hungarian74,210 speak it at home
- Bulgarian71,460 speak it at home
- Swedish55,580 speak it at home
- Croatian46,960 speak it at home
- Czech43,670 speak it at home
- Lithuanian36,030 speak it at home
- Afrikaans32,030 speak it at home
- Norwegian28,310 speak it at homeBokmålNynorsk
- Cape Verdean Creole27,450 speak it at home
- Danish26,890 speak it at home
- Kurdish (Sorani)25,050 speak it at home
- Macedonian23,540 speak it at home
- Slovak22,470 speak it at home
- Finnish21,320 speak it at home
- Uzbek18,377 speak it at home
- Malay14,840 speak it at home
- Luganda12,150 speak it at home
- Latvian12,060 speak it at home
- Odia5,676 speak it at home
- Estonian5,618 speak it at home
- Azerbaijani5,532 speak it at home
- Slovenian4,997 speak it at home
- Zulu4,412 speak it at home
- Belarusian3,809 speak it at home
- Tajik3,421 speak it at home
- Kazakh1,941 speak it at home
- Kyrgyz1,923 speak it at home
- Basque1,472 speak it at home
- Kabyle950 speak it at home
- Tatar573 speak it at home
- CatalanReal-time interpretation
- GalicianReal-time interpretation
Speaker counts: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Languages not listed here are still covered. Opalite supports 150+ languages and dialects, including the rarest, and adds languages on request.
Ask us about your language25.5 million people in the U.S. speak English less than “very well.”
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Shading shows the share of each state’s residents age 5 and over.
Darker states have a higher share of residents who speak English less than very well; shading is logarithmic, relative to the highest-share state.
| State | Share | People |
|---|---|---|
| California | 17.2% | 6,377,000 |
| Texas | 13.1% | 3,532,000 |
| New York | 13.1% | 2,486,000 |
| New Jersey | 12.2% | 1,060,000 |
| Florida | 11.8% | 2,389,000 |
| Hawaii | 11.2% | 152,900 |
| Nevada | 11.1% | 320,200 |
| Massachusetts | 9.5% | 631,900 |
| New Mexico | 8.7% | 172,700 |
| Illinois | 8.5% | 1,027,000 |
| Connecticut | 8.4% | 288,200 |
| Rhode Island | 8.4% | 87,250 |
| Arizona | 8.1% | 542,400 |
| Washington | 7.6% | 547,600 |
| Maryland | 7.1% | 411,700 |
| Virginia | 5.8% | 469,000 |
| Colorado | 5.5% | 295,600 |
| Georgia | 5.4% | 541,600 |
| District of Columbia | 5.4% | 34,600 |
| Oregon | 5.4% | 214,100 |
| Nebraska | 5.1% | 93,560 |
| Delaware | 4.9% | 45,460 |
| Utah | 4.7% | 140,000 |
| Kansas | 4.5% | 124,100 |
| Minnesota | 4.5% | 239,600 |
| North Carolina | 4.5% | 439,200 |
| Pennsylvania | 4.4% | 544,000 |
| Alaska | 4.3% | 29,650 |
| Oklahoma | 3.8% | 142,200 |
| Idaho | 3.7% | 62,850 |
| Iowa | 3.4% | 100,800 |
| Michigan | 3.4% | 318,900 |
| Arkansas | 3.2% | 90,380 |
| Indiana | 3.2% | 200,900 |
| Tennessee | 3.1% | 197,500 |
| Wisconsin | 3.0% | 164,200 |
| Louisiana | 2.8% | 123,500 |
| South Carolina | 2.8% | 132,700 |
| Ohio | 2.5% | 281,500 |
| Kentucky | 2.4% | 101,800 |
| New Hampshire | 2.4% | 31,410 |
| Missouri | 2.1% | 123,000 |
| Alabama | 2.1% | 98,720 |
| South Dakota | 1.9% | 15,800 |
| North Dakota | 1.9% | 13,810 |
| Wyoming | 1.8% | 9,923 |
| Mississippi | 1.6% | 44,870 |
| Maine | 1.4% | 18,140 |
| Vermont | 1.3% | 7,705 |
| Montana | 0.8% | 7,731 |
| West Virginia | 0.6% | 11,060 |
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