US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Oklahoma

Of 3,782,477 residents of Oklahoma aged 5 and over, 435,129 (11.5%) speak a language other than English at home, and 160,099 (4.2%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 305,840 speakers, followed by Vietnamese (15,905).

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↗305,840116,958
Vietnamese↗15,9059,919
Other Native languages of North America ↗11,2751,318
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗10,8365,638
German↗8,8271,195
Hmong ↗6,3162,333
Other languages of Asia ↗6,1113,497
Arabic↗5,8321,520
French (incl. Cajun)↗5,5271,067
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗5,3741,845
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗4,9571,494
Korean↗3,4131,297
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗3,138327
Russian↗3,021728
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗2,635844
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗2,594776
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗2,4741,331
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗2,419958
Hindi↗2,415482
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗2,228506
Japanese↗2,015596
Portuguese↗1,972484
Other Indo-European languages ↗1,956554
Other and unspecified languages ↗1,888268
Urdu↗1,750452
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗1,674270
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗1,608578
Bengali↗1,520834
Italian↗1,366335
Telugu↗1,229189

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