Oklahoma

===Language===
{{Infobox language
| name             = Oklahoman English
| region           = Oklahoma
| ethnicity        = [[Okie]]s
| speakers         = 
| date             = 
| ref              = 
| speakers2        = 
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3             = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4             = [[North Sea Germanic|Ingvaeonic]]
| fam5             = [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo–Frisian]]
| fam6             = [[Anglic languages|Anglic]]
| fam7             = [[English language|English]]
| fam8             = [[North American English]]
| fam9             = [[American English]]
| fam10            = [[Southern American English]]
| fam11            = American Inland South English
| ancestor         = [[Old English]]
| ancestor2        = [[Middle English]]
| ancestor3        = [[Early Modern English]]
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[English alphabet]])<br />[[American Braille]]
| isoexception     = dialect
| glotto           = ozar1236
| ietf             = 
| notice           = 
}}

[[File:Cherokeestompdance.ogg|thumb|right|Recording of a [[Cherokee language]] stomp dance ceremony in Oklahoma]]
[[File:Cherokee stop sign.png|thumb|right|upright=0.7|Located in [[Tahlequah]], this [[stop sign]] includes [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] lettering. ]]

====English====
The English language has been official in the state of Oklahoma since 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsok.com/oklahoma-votes-to-make-english-official-language/article/3510663|title=Oklahoma votes to make English official language|publisher=News OK|date=November 2, 2010|access-date=May 17, 2014}}</ref> The variety of [[North American English]] spoken is called Oklahoma English, and this dialect is quite diverse with its uneven blending of features of North Midland, South Midland, and [[Southern American English|Southern]] dialects.<ref name="Languages">{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/states/Oklahoma-Languages.html|title=Oklahoma-Languages|publisher=City-data.com|date=2000|access-date=May 17, 2014}}</ref> In 2000, 2,977,187 Oklahomans—92.6% of the resident population, five years or older—spoke only English at home, a decrease from 95% in 1990.<ref name="Languages" /> 238,732 Oklahoma residents reported speaking a language other than English at home in the 2000 census, about 7.4% of the state's population.<ref name="Languages" />

====Native American languages====

The two most commonly spoken native North American languages are [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] and [[Choctaw language|Choctaw]], with 10,000 Cherokee speakers living within the [[Cherokee Nation]] tribal jurisdiction area of eastern Oklahoma and another 10,000 Choctaw speakers living in the [[Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma|Choctaw Nation]] directly south of the Cherokees.<ref name="Cherokee">{{cite web|title=Cherokee|website=Ethnologue|access-date=April 11, 2014|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730231052/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|archive-date=July 30, 2015}}</ref> Cherokee is an official language in the Cherokee Nation tribal jurisdiction area and in the [[United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians]].<ref name="official" /><ref name="constitution" /><ref name="CARLA">{{cite web| title = The Cherokee Nation & its Language |website=University of Minnesota: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition |date =2008 |url= http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/past/immersion2008/documents/Peter_L_CherokeeNation.pdf |access-date=May 22, 2014}}</ref>

Twenty-five [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Native American languages]] are spoken in Oklahoma,<ref name="languages" /> second only to [[California]]. However, only Cherokee, if any, exhibits some language vitality at present. ''[[Ethnologue]]'' sees Cherokee as [[Endangered language|moribund]] because the only remaining active users of the language are members of the grandparent generation and older.

====Other languages====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:1em; float:center"
|+ '''Top 10 non-English languages spoken in Oklahoma'''
|-
! Language !! Percentage of population<br /><small>({{as of|2000|lc=on}})</small><ref name="Languages" />
|-
| Spanish || 4.4%
|-
| [[Indigenous languages of North America|Native North American languages]] || 0.6%
|-
| German and Vietnamese (tied) || 0.4%
|-
| French || 0.3%
|-
| Chinese || 0.2%
|-
| Korean, Arabic, [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], Japanese (tied) || 0.1%
|}

[[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]] is the second-most commonly spoken language in the state, with 141,060 speakers counted in 2000.<ref name="Languages" /> German has 13,444 speakers representing about 0.4% of the state's population,<ref name="Languages" /> and Vietnamese is spoken by 11,330 people,<ref name="Languages" /> or about 0.4% of the population,<ref name="Languages" /> many of whom live in the [[Asia District, Oklahoma City|Asia District]] of [[Oklahoma City]]. Other languages include French with 8,258 speakers (0.3%), [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]] with 6,413 (0.2%), Korean with 3,948 (0.1%), Arabic with 3,265 (0.1%), other Asian languages with 3,134 (0.1%), [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] with 2,888 (0.1%), Japanese with 2,546 (0.1%), and African languages with 2,546 (0.1%).<ref name="Languages" />