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Norwegian medical interpreters

Real-time medical interpretation in Norwegian, on demand, at any hour, on the devices your teams already carry.

Dialects supported by Opalite:BokmålNynorsk

There are 28,310 speakers of Norwegian in the United States.

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

North Dakota

622Norwegian speakers

<0.1% of residents · #1 nationwide

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

Norwegian speakers by state
StateSpeakers
North Dakota622

Where Norwegian is spoken at home

  1. 1North Dakota622

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

2,998

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

11%

of Norwegian speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

622

people speak Norwegian at home in North Dakota alone.

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

Common questions about Norwegian interpretation

Only one state’s published top-15 language table includes Norwegian: North Dakota, home to 2.2% of the nation’s speakers.

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

It's word for word: every detail a patient shares is captured rather than summarized. In blinded testing, Opalite made fewer major and critical errors than certified interpreters, and Opalite Guardian monitors quality in real time.

The interpreter is already in the room.

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