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 homeSpeakers (5+)Speak English < “very well”
Other Native languages of North America ↗24,9963,422
Spanish↗22,4375,926
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗17,3566,830
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗7,9012,272
Korean↗3,5832,098
Russian↗3,4271,006
Hmong ↗3,2951,849
German↗2,434208
French (incl. Cajun)↗2,076360
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗1,961863
Arabic↗1,693371
Other Indo-European languages ↗1,634269
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗1,545734
Japanese↗1,494461
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗1,347632
Vietnamese↗906289
Portuguese↗67646
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗560138
Serbo-Croatian↗486331
Polish↗44454
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗41537
Tamil↗4054
Other and unspecified languages ↗391153
Haitian↗37227
Hindi↗28238
Italian↗2750
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗25476
Urdu↗20331
Other languages of Asia ↗19328
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗161120

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.