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Legal Status of official English in Hawaii In 1978, this state made English and Hawaiian its official languages. Languages in Hawaii More than a quarter (26.7%) of this state's residents speak a language other than English. The most common of these languages are Tagalog (Philippino) (54, 703), Japanese (52,226), Ilocano (Philippino), (40,000), and Chinese (25, 528), and Spanish (16,397). This state has the nation's highest proportion of speakers of Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Samoan, and Ilocano. Language law in the Hawaiian Constitution HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE XV, SECTION 4, OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
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