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Tamil medical interpreters

AI medical interpretation, in real time, in Tamil, ready the moment a visit starts, on the devices your teams already carry.

There are 311,100 speakers of Tamil in the United States.

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

Texas

37,580Tamil speakers

0.1% of residents · #1 nationwide

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

Tamil speakers by state
StateSpeakers
Texas37,580
North Carolina10,020
Delaware2,130
New Hampshire1,172

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

47,560

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

15%

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

37,580

people speak Tamil at home in Texas alone.

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

Common questions about Tamil interpretation

Three states hold 16% of the nation’s Tamil speakers, and Tamil ranks in the published top-15 language tables of 4 states.

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

When a patient prefers Tamil, yes. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act requires every provider taking federal dollars to provide meaningful language access, and the 2024 Section 1557 final rule requires qualified interpreters: family members and untrained staff don't count. 47,560 Tamil speakers in the U.S. speak English less than “very well” (ACS 2017-2021).

No patient should go unheard.

See how your teams can reach patients who speak Tamil in seconds, word for word.