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Cape Verdean Creole medical interpreters

Real-time medical interpretation, on demand, in Cape Verdean Creole, ready in seconds on the devices your teams already carry.

There are 27,450 speakers of Cape Verdean Creole in the United States.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Massachusetts

22,080Cape Verdean Creole speakers

0.3% of residents · #1 nationwide

Darker states have more Cape Verdean Creole speakers; shading is logarithmic, relative to the state with the most speakers.

Cape Verdean Creole speakers by state
StateSpeakers
Massachusetts22,080
Rhode Island2,662

Where Cape Verdean Creole is spoken at home

  1. 1Massachusetts22,080
  2. 2Rhode Island2,662

State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Cape Verdean Creole falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.

Reported in the ACS as Kabuverdianu.

11,050

speakers of Cape Verdean Creole speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

40%

of Cape Verdean Creole speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

22,080

people speak Cape Verdean Creole at home in Massachusetts alone.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Common questions about Cape Verdean Creole interpretation

Massachusetts holds 80% of the nation’s Cape Verdean Creole speakers, and Cape Verdean Creole appears in the published top-15 tables of just 2 states.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Instantly. Opalite connects in seconds, on demand, 24/7, with Cape Verdean Creole among its 150+ languages and dialects. The average hospital interpreter takes 19 minutes to arrive (Mayo Clinic–affiliated study, 2017), and staffing is hardest for less common languages.

The interpreter is already in the room.

See how visits with patients who speak Cape Verdean Creole flow naturally, interpreted in seconds.