US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year
Languages spoken in Alaska
Of 689,070 residents of Alaska aged 5 and over, 103,908 (15.1%) speak a language other than English at home, and 28,940 (4.2%) speak English less than "very well".
The most common non-English language is Other Native languages of North America with 24,996 speakers, followed by Spanish (22,437).
Limited-English-proficiency counts are the best public proxy for local demand for interpreters and document translation in healthcare, courts, schools and social services.
| Language spoken at home | Speakers (5+) | Speak English < “very well” | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Native languages of North America ↗ | 24,996 | 3,422 | |
| Spanish↗ | 22,437 | 5,926 | |
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗ | 17,356 | 6,830 | |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗ | 7,901 | 2,272 | |
| Korean↗ | 3,583 | 2,098 | |
| Russian↗ | 3,427 | 1,006 | |
| Hmong ↗ | 3,295 | 1,849 | |
| German↗ | 2,434 | 208 | |
| French (incl. Cajun)↗ | 2,076 | 360 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗ | 1,961 | 863 | |
| Arabic↗ | 1,693 | 371 | |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 1,634 | 269 | |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗ | 1,545 | 734 | |
| Japanese↗ | 1,494 | 461 | |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗ | 1,347 | 632 | |
| Vietnamese↗ | 906 | 289 | |
| Portuguese↗ | 676 | 46 | |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗ | 560 | 138 | |
| Serbo-Croatian↗ | 486 | 331 | |
| Polish↗ | 444 | 54 | |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗ | 415 | 37 | |
| Tamil↗ | 405 | 4 | |
| Other and unspecified languages ↗ | 391 | 153 | |
| Haitian↗ | 372 | 27 | |
| Hindi↗ | 282 | 38 | |
| Italian↗ | 275 | 0 | |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗ | 254 | 76 | |
| Urdu↗ | 203 | 31 | |
| Other languages of Asia ↗ | 193 | 28 | |
| Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗ | 161 | 120 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.