US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year
Languages spoken in Montana
Of 1,058,934 residents of Montana aged 5 and over, 44,381 (4.2%) speak a language other than English at home, and 9,929 (0.9%) speak English less than "very well".
The most common non-English language is Spanish with 15,285 speakers, followed by German (6,655).
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” | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish↗ | 15,285 | 4,082 | |
| German↗ | 6,655 | 1,390 | |
| Other Native languages of North America ↗ | 6,171 | 627 | |
| French (incl. Cajun)↗ | 1,877 | 389 | |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗ | 1,606 | 261 | |
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗ | 1,597 | 295 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗ | 1,568 | 686 | |
| Russian↗ | 1,537 | 346 | |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 962 | 67 | |
| Vietnamese↗ | 804 | 342 | |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗ | 800 | 118 | |
| Italian↗ | 663 | 99 | |
| Korean↗ | 583 | 97 | |
| Other and unspecified languages ↗ | 444 | 45 | |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗ | 431 | 145 | |
| Portuguese↗ | 384 | 59 | |
| Hmong ↗ | 347 | 176 | |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗ | 318 | 205 | |
| Navajo↗ | 318 | 20 | |
| Polish↗ | 257 | 85 | |
| Greek↗ | 230 | 4 | |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗ | 226 | 87 | |
| Japanese↗ | 218 | 84 | |
| Other languages of Asia ↗ | 187 | 57 | |
| Arabic↗ | 146 | 0 | |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗ | 107 | 24 | |
| Gujarati↗ | 102 | 52 | |
| Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗ | 86 | 0 | |
| Hebrew↗ | 84 | 0 | |
| Khmer↗ | 63 | 58 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.