US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Nebraska

Of 1,853,332 residents of Nebraska aged 5 and over, 236,704 (12.8%) speak a language other than English at home, and 100,626 (5.4%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 156,178 speakers, followed by Vietnamese (7,674).

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”
Spanish↗156,17868,754
Vietnamese↗7,6744,156
Other languages of Asia ↗6,9064,535
Arabic↗6,6912,771
French (incl. Cajun)↗6,1782,172
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗4,7991,902
German↗4,596697
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗4,2152,046
Other Indo-European languages ↗3,6041,948
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗3,4822,369
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗2,9701,258
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗2,758691
Russian↗2,082565
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗2,059584
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗2,041487
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗1,944842
Telugu↗1,919311
Hindi↗1,721323
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗1,476754
Tamil↗1,218351
Japanese↗1,204338
Korean↗1,127411
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗1,096330
Other and unspecified languages ↗981327
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗93469
Serbo-Croatian↗922182
Other Native languages of North America ↗83166
Portuguese↗679112
Polish↗601206
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗58941

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