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Fact Sheets: Languages Used for Driver's License Exams
| ALABAMA: |
(13) Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese. |
| ALASKA: |
(2) English, Native American languages. |
| ARIZONA: |
(1) English.
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| ARKANSAS: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| CALIFORNIA: |
(32) Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Rumanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Vietnamese. |
| COLORADO: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| CONNECTICUT: |
(21) Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
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| DELAWARE: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| FLORIDA: |
(3) English, Haitian Creole, Spanish. |
| GEORGIA: |
(14) Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| HAWAII: |
(1) English. |
| IDAHO: |
(8) Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| ILLINOIS: |
(3) English, Polish, Spanish. |
| INDIANA: |
(3) English, Japanese, Spanish. |
| IOWA: |
(10) Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese, English, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese.
(June 2009 update) (21) Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hmong, Italian, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese.
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| KANSAS: |
(1) English. |
| KENTUCKY: |
(23) Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese. |
| LOUISIANA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| MAINE: |
(1) English. |
| MARYLAND: |
(5) English, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish. |
| MASSACHUSETTS: |
(25) Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Czech, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese. |
| MICHIGAN: |
(13) Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, English, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| MINNESOTA: |
(6) English, Hmong, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| MISSISSIPPI: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| MISSOURI: |
(12) Bosnian, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| MONTANA: |
(4) Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish. |
| NEBRASKA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| NEVADA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE: |
(1) English. |
| NEW JERSEY: |
(10) Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. |
| NEW MEXICO: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| NEW YORK: |
(12) Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish. |
| NORTH CAROLINA: |
(10) Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese.
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| NORTH DAKOTA: |
(7) Arabic, English, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese.
(June 2009 update) (10) Arabic, English, Nepali, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Vietnamese.
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| OHIO: |
(8) Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Russian, Somali, Spanish. |
| OKLAHOMA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| OREGON: |
(6) English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| PENNSYLVANIA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| RHODE ISLAND: |
(17) Albanian, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hmong, Italian, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| SOUTH CAROLINA: |
(4) English, French, German, Spanish. |
| SOUTH DAKOTA: |
(1) English. |
| TENNESSE: |
(4) English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish. |
| TEXAS: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| UTAH: |
(1) English. |
| VERMONT: |
(5) Bosnian, English, French, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| VIRGINIA: |
(2) English, Spanish. |
| WASHINGTON: |
(7) Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. |
| WEST VIRGNIA: |
(5) English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish. |
| WISCONSIN: |
(8) Chinese, English, Hmong, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish. |
| WYOMING: |
(1) English.
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Information in the above table was collected from officials at the motor vehicle departments in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, April-May 2009. Updates are listed in red. |
