Afrikaans medical interpreters
AI medical interpretation, in real time, in Afrikaans, in seconds, at a flat, predictable rate.
There are 32,030 speakers of Afrikaans in the United States.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Afrikaans doesn’t rank among the 15 most reported non-English languages in any state’s ACS table, so state-level counts aren’t published. The national figure covers all states. Communities like this are exactly why Opalite exists: the languages hardest to staff are the ones we make sure are always available.
3,108
speakers of Afrikaans speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.
10%
of Afrikaans speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Common questions about Afrikaans interpretation
The 2017-2021 ACS counts 32,030 people speaking Afrikaans at home in the U.S.; 3,108 of them speak English less than “very well.”
Every patient understood.
See how care reaches patients who speak Afrikaans in seconds, in their own words.