Editing Utah (section)

===Languages===
{{See also|Native American languages of Utah|Utah dual language immersion}}

The [[official language]] in the state of Utah is [[English language|English]].<ref name="LE.UT">{{cite web |url=https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title63G/Chapter1/63G-1-S201.html |title= Utah Code Section |last= <!--|first= |date= --> |website= le.utah.gov |publisher= |access-date= 9 February 2023 |quote=}}</ref> [[Utah English]] is primarily a merger of Northern and Midland American dialects carried west by LDS Church members, whose original [[New York (state)|New York]] dialect later incorporated features from [[Northeast Ohio|northeast]] [[Ohio]] and [[Central Illinois|central]] [[Illinois]]. Conspicuous in the speech of some in the central valley, although less frequent now in Salt Lake City, is a [[cord-card merger]], so that the vowels /ɑ/ an /ɔ/ are pronounced the same before an /ɹ/, such as in the words ''cord'' and ''card''.<ref name=Bowie>{{Cite journal|last=Bowie|first=David|title=Acoustic Characteristics of Utah's Card-Cord Merger|date=February 1, 2008|journal=American Speech|language=en|volume=83|issue=1|pages=35–61|doi=10.1215/00031283-2008-002|issn=0003-1283}}</ref>

In 2000, 87.5% of all state residents five years of age or older spoke only English at home, a decrease from 92.2% in 1990. In 2011, one-third of Utah's workforce was reported to be bilingual, developed through a program of acquisition of second languages beginning in elementary school, and related to Mormonism's missionary goals for its young people.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/utah-an-economy-powered-by-multilingual-missionaries-20120723 |title=Utah: An Economy Powered by Multilingual Missionaries |last=Sterling |first=Terry |date=July 23, 2012 |website=[[The National Journal]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415010658/http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/utah-an-economy-powered-by-multilingual-missionaries-20120723 |archive-date=April 15, 2013 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:1em; float:center"
|+ '''Top 14 Non-English Languages Spoken in Utah'''
|-
! Language !! Percentage of population<br /><small>({{as of|2010|lc=on}})</small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/states/Utah-Languages.html"|title=Utah—Languages|website=city-data.com|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || 7.4%
|-
| [[German language|German]] || 0.6%
|-
| [[Navajo language|Navajo]] || 0.5%
|-
| [[French language|French]] || 0.4%
|-
| Pacific Island languages including Chamorro, Hawaiian, Ilocano, Tagalog, and Samoan || 0.4%
|-
| [[Chinese language|Chinese]] || 0.4%
|-
| [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] || 0.3%
|-
| [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] || 0.3%
|-
| [[Japanese language|Japanese]] || 0.2%
|-
| [[Arapaho language|Arapaho]] || 0.1%
|}