150+ languages and dialects. One standard of care.
Explore the languages U.S. patients speak at home, and how Opalite serves each one in seconds.
- Spanish41.2 million speak it at homeMexican SpanishEuropean Spanish (Castilian)Argentinian SpanishCaribbean SpanishPuerto Rican SpanishDominican SpanishColombian SpanishGuatemalan Spanish
- Chinese3.5 million speak it at homeMandarin (Simplified)Mandarin (Traditional)CantoneseHokkien (Min Nan)
- Tagalog1.7 million speak it at homeManila TagalogCebuano Tagalog
- Vietnamese1.5 million speak it at homeNorthern VietnameseCentral VietnameseSouthern Vietnamese
- Arabic1.3 million speak it at homeEgyptian ArabicLevantine ArabicGulf ArabicYemeni ArabicModern Standard Arabic
- French1.2 million speak it at homeMetropolitan FrenchCanadian French (Quebec)African French
- Korean1.1 million speak it at homeStandard KoreanSeoul DialectJeju Dialect
- Russian984,000 speak it at homeStandard RussianSouthern Russian
- Hindi875,100 speak it at homeStandard HindiAwadhiBraj Bhasha
- German871,300 speak it at homeStandard GermanSwiss GermanAustrian German
- Haitian Creole867,500 speak it at home
- Portuguese841,300 speak it at homeBrazilian PortugueseEuropean PortugueseAfrican Portuguese
- Italian547,500 speak it at homeStandard ItalianSicilianNorthern Italian
- Polish529,300 speak it at home
- Urdu499,800 speak it at home
- Japanese460,300 speak it at homeStandard JapaneseKansaiOkinawan
- Persian449,100 speak it at homeIranian Persian (Farsi)Dari (Afghan Persian)Tajik Persian
- Gujarati435,700 speak it at home
- Telugu433,300 speak it at home
- Bengali373,200 speak it at homeStandard BengaliSylhetiChittagonian
- Tamil311,100 speak it at home
- Greek262,600 speak it at home
- Armenian241,600 speak it at homeEastern ArmenianWestern Armenian
- Hebrew221,400 speak it at homeModern HebrewSephardic Hebrew
- Amharic220,000 speak it at home
- Nepali198,300 speak it at home
- Yiddish194,957 speak it at homeEastern Yiddish (Litvish)Central Yiddish (Poylish)Western Yiddish
- Malayalam187,500 speak it at home
- Ukrainian184,000 speak it at home
- Romanian176,800 speak it at home
- Thai164,800 speak it at homeCentral ThaiNorthern ThaiSouthern Thai
- Albanian163,000 speak it at home
- Somali159,913 speak it at homeStandard SomaliMaay Somali
- Turkish152,700 speak it at homeStandard TurkishCypriot Turkish
- Swahili147,100 speak it at homeTanzanian SwahiliKenyan SwahiliCongo Swahili
- 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 homeStandard IndonesianJakarta Indonesian
- 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.
Don’t see a language? Opalite covers 150+ languages and dialects, including the rarest. If your community speaks it, we want to cover it.
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.
California
17.2%of residents
6,377,000 people · #1 nationwide
Most spoken after English
Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese (Yue), Hindi, Persian, Armenian, Arabic, Russian, Punjabi, Japanese, Filipino
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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