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Status of Language Laws in North Dakota
North Dakota's official language statute simply reads as follows:
54-02-13 - English As Official Language (1987)
The English language is the official language of the state of North Dakota.
Language Use in North Dakota
6.3 percent of this state's residents speak
a language other than English. This state has the nation's highest proportion
of speakers of German, and Norwegian.
These are foreign languages most commonly spoken as the primary language
in a home in North Dakota:
German (14,093)
Spanish (6187)
Scandinavian languages (2970)
2,150 speak an indigenous North American language
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