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Health overhaul: Arizona language diversity
700K Arizonans speak English less than "very well"
Updated: Monday, 04 Mar 2013, 4:01 PM EST
Published : Monday, 04 Mar 2013, 4:01 PM EST
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona faces cultural and linguistic challenges in trying to educate the public about the federal health care overhaul and in marketing the changes to limited-English speakers and hard-to-reach populations.
More than 1.6 million people in Arizona age 5 and older speak a language besides English, and about 700,000 of them say they speak English less than "very well."
Here are the most commonly spoken languages besides English in the state:
| Number of speakers | Spoke English less than "Very Well" | |
| Arizona resident over the age of 5 who speak language besides English | 1,627,805 | 706,415 |
| Spanish | 1,267,440 | 597,776 |
| Navajo | 88,251 | 21,154 |
| Chinese | 20,940 | 11,070 |
| Vietnamese | 16,670 | 10,837 |
| Arabic | 12,708 | 5,143 |
| Tagalog | 16,252 | 4,590 |
| Korean | 8,726 | 4,491 |
| Russian | 8,495 | 3,819 |
| Serbo-Croatian | 6,557 | 3,044 |
| German | 22,406 | 2,898 |
' Source: U.S. Census.
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