Table 3. Top Five Languages Spoken by LEP Students, by State, 2000-2001

Jurisdiction	Reported LEPS*	#1 Language		#2 Language		#3 Language		#4 Language		#5 Language
		Language	%	Language	%	Language	%	Language	%	Language	%
USA	4,552,403	Spanish	79.0%	Vietnamese	2.0%	Hmong	1.6%	Cantonese	1.0%	Korean	1.0%
Alabama	7,434	Spanish	74.7%	Vietnamese	5.8%	Korean	1.9%	Arabic	1.7%	Lao	1.6%
Alaska	19,896	Yup'ik	38.6%	Inupiak	11.2%	Spanish	10.0%	Tagalog	5.6%	Russian	3.4%
Arizona	198,477	Spanish	85.6%	Navajo	7.8%	Apache	1.3%	Vietnamese	1.0%	Arabic	0.7%
Arkansas	10,600	Spanish	87.6%	Lao	2.4%	Vietnamese	2.2%	Arabic	0.7%	Korean	0.5%
California	1,511,299	Spanish	83.4%	Vietnamese	2.5%	Hmong	1.8%	Cantonese	1.7%	Tagalog	1.2%
Colorado	71,199	Spanish	81.8%	Vietnamese	2.6%	Asian (unsp)	2.2%	Korean	1.8%	Russian	1.8%
Connecticut	21,492	Spanish	67.6%	Portuguese	5.3%	Polish	2.8%	Albanian	2.6%	Serbo-Croatian	2.6%
Delaware	2,371	Spanish	72.3%	Haitian Creole	7.6%	Korean	3.3%	Chinese (unsp)	2.7%	Afrikaans	1.3%
Dist. of Columbia	5,435	Spanish	76.4%	Vietnamese	3.9%	Amharic	2.5%	English Creole	1.4%	French	1.3%
Florida	249,821	Spanish	75.8%	Haitian Creole	12.4%	Portuguese	2.2%	French	1.1%	Vietnamese	1.0%
Georgia	64,849	Spanish	70.1%	Vietnamese	4.4%	African (unsp)	4.2%	European (unsp)	3.1%	Korean	2.4%
Hawaii	11,687	Ilocano	31.8%	Samoan	12.4%	Marshallese	9.1%	Cantonese	6.3%	Japanese	5.3%
Idaho	19,298	Spanish	78.8%	Native American (unsp)	5.6%	Serbo-Croatian	3.0%	Vietnamese	1.0%	Kurdish	1.0%
Illinois	140,540	Spanish	77.6%	Polish	4.4%	Arabic	1.7%	Urdu	1.6%	Serbo-Croatian	1.5%
Indiana	20,467	Spanish	64.4%	Penn. Dutch	3.7%	Japanese	1.5%	Korean	1.3%	Arabic	1.2%
Iowa	11,402	Spanish	62.3%	Serbo-Croatian	11.6%	Vietnamese	6.7%	Lao	3.6%	German	1.3%
Kansas	19,075	Spanish	81.3%	Vietnamese	4.4%	Lao	1.6%	Cantonese	0.8%	Korean	0.8%
Kentucky	5,119	Spanish	47.3%	Serbo-Croatian	13.0%	Vietnamese	6.4%	Japanese	5.5%	Arabic	3.6%
Louisiana	6,346	Spanish	48.5%	Vietnamese	25.1%	Arabic	4.4%	Chinese (unsp)	3.7%	French	2.3%
Maine	2,737	French	16.8%	Spanish	12.9%	Passamaquoddy	10.7%	Somali	9.2%	Khmer	8.9%
Maryland	12,183	Spanish	53.0%	Korean	6.0%	Haitian Creole	3.4%	Vietnamese	3.0%	French	2.9%
Massachusetts**	24,165	Spanish	69.4%	Portuguese	10.0%	Khmer	5.1%	Vietnamese	4.9%	Haitian Creole	3.0%
Michigan	36,463	Spanish	44.8%	Arabic	22.5%	Chaldean	5.0%	Hmong	3.4%	Albanian	3.0%
Minnesota	46,601	Hmong	34.1%	Spanish	28.3%	Somali	6.6%	Vietnamese	4.4%	Lao	3.6%
Mississippi	63,116	Spanish	60.4%	Vietnamese	18.8%	Choctaw	7.1%	Arabic	2.2%	Sudanese	2.0%
Missouri	2,954	Spanish	44.2%	Serbo-Croatian	19.2%	Vietnamese	6.6%	Arabic	3.9%	Somali	3.3%
Montana	11,525	Blackfoot	25.2%	Crow	15.6%	Dakota	10.6%	Salish	8.1%	Assiniboine	7.5%
Nebraska	7,575	Spanish	76.8%	Vietnamese	6.1%	Nuer	3.3%	Arabic	2.7%	Serbo-Croatian	1.8%
Nevada	10,301	Spanish	91.5%	Tagalog	1.9%	Chinese (unsp)	1.0%	Vietnamese	0.6%	Korean	0.5%
New Hampshire	38,902	Spanish	38.7%	Serbo-Croatian	10.5%	Portuguese	5.1%	Arabic	4.1%	Vietnamese	3.8%
New Jersey	3,321	Spanish	67.3%	Portuguese	3.8%	Korean	3.3%	Haitian Creole	2.5%	Arabic	2.5%
New Mexico	52,701	Spanish	78.8%	Navajo	14.6%	Vietnamese	0.5%	Arabic	0.1%	Russian	0.1%
New York	58,308	Spanish	62.2%	Cantonese	5.2%	Russian	3.0%	Chinese (unsp)	2.7%	Urdu	2.7%
North Carolina	165,238	Spanish	77.6%	Hmong	5.6%	Vietnamese	2.2%	Arabic	1.4%	Chinese (unsp)	1.2%
North Dakota	52,482	Native American (unsp)	85.9%	Serbo-Croatian	4.5%	Spanish	2.2%	Sudanese	1.6%	Somali	1.1%
Ohio	7,190	Spanish	39.2%	Arabic	8.2%	Somali	8.0%	Penn. Dutch	5.4%	Japanese	4.9%
Oklahoma	19,814	Spanish	51.7%	Cherokee	20.2%	Choctaw	4.2%	Vietnamese	4.2%	Muskogee	3.5%
Oregon	43,410	Spanish	72.5%	Russian	8.4%	Vietnamese	3.6%	Ukrainian	1.7%	Hmong	1.4%
Pennsylvania	44,126	Spanish	52.9%	Vietnamese	5.0%	Khmer	3.6%	Russian	3.4%	Korean	3.2%
Rhode Island	31,277	Spanish	69.8%	Portuguese	6.7%	Kabuverdianu	4.9%	Khmer	2.5%	Lao	1.8%
South Carolina***	10,164	Spanish	77.3%	Russian	2.8%	Vietnamese	2.4%	Hmong	1.5%	Korean	1.5%
South Dakota	6,900	Lakota	57.4%	Spanish	8.8%	German	8.6%	Hutterite	4.2%	Dakota	3.7%
Tennessee	5,848	Spanish	61.2%	Vietnamese	4.8%	Arabic	4.2%	Korean	2.2%	Japanese	2.0%
Texas***	12,350	Spanish	93.4%	Vietnamese	1.9%	Cantonese	0.7%	Urdu	0.5%	Korean	0.4%
Utah**	558,773	Spanish	65.3%	Navajo	6.7%	Vietnamese	2.5%	Lao	1.3%	Portuguese	1.0%
Vermont	41,057	Serbo-Croatian	26.7%	Vietnamese	16.7%	Spanish	12.3%	Chinese (unsp)	6.4%	French	4.2%
Virginia	998	Spanish	60.4%	Korean	5.2%	Vietnamese	4.8%	Urdu	3.9%	Arabic	3.9%
Washington	35,298	Spanish	60.9%	Russian	7.5%	Vietnamese	6.4%	Ukrainian	4.7%	Korean	2.5%
West Virginia	57,409	Spanish	26.3%	Arabic	8.6%	Khmer	8.5%	Japanese	4.2%	Korean	2.7%
Wisconsin	1,139	Spanish	47.8%	Hmong	40.1%	Lao	1.1%	Serbo-Croatian	1.0%	Albanian	1.0%
Wyoming**	29,037	Spanish	90.4%	Vietnamese	6.0%	Russian	3.6%	-	-	-	-
Guam	634	Chamorro	45.4%	Tagalog	32.2%	Chuukese	11.1%	Palauan	2.4%	Pohnpeian	2.3%
Marshall Islands^	19,523	Marshallese	100.0%
Micronesia^	32,470	Chuukese	37.5%	Pohnpeian	27.1%	Kosraean	6.7%	Yapese	6.4%	Mortlockese	5.8%
N. Mariana Islands	7,926	Chamorro	67.1%	Tagalog	15.1%	Palauan	5.1%	Chuukese	4.7%	Pohnpeian	2.0%
Palau**	2,651	Palauan	98.8%	Tagalog	0.6%	Yapese	0.3%	Carolinian	0.1%	Chamorro	0.0%
Puerto Rico	598,063	Spanish	100.0%
Virgin Islands**	959	Spanish	89.4%	Haitian Creole	4.6%	Arabic	1.3%	-	-	-	-
* For unspecified reasons, the totals for LEP students reported under the language item of the survey did not equal the total LEP enrollment reported in many states. ** Data from 1999-2000. *** Data from 2001-2002. ^ Estimate based on data from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 14th Edition. Dallas: SIL International. 2002. Available online: www.sil.org/ethnologue. - A dash [-] indicates that data was either missing or not available.

SOURCE: NCELA, Office of English Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students, Survey of the States’ Limited English Students and Available Educational Programs and Services, 2000-01 Summary Report.