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Legal Status of official English in Colorado Colorado allows referenda and voter initiatives
to pass new statutes or to change the state's constitution. In 1988, this
state passed an amendment to their state constitution making English the
state's official language. 15.1 percent of this state's residents speak
a language other than English. The most common of these languages are
Spanish, German, French, and Korean. The number of Coloradoans who speak
little or no English has more than triples since 1990. In 2002, Colorado voters rejected an initiative to replace bilingual education with English immersion. Opponents spent more than $3 million on an ad campaign which they later acknowledged included false information. The most common foreign languages in Colorado are, Spanish (332,732 speakers), German (27,847), French (15,210), Korean (9,823), Vietnamese (9,757), Chinese (9,683), and Russian (8,693). Colorado Official English Amendment COLORADO CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE II, SECTION 30 (1988)
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