50 different languages other than English are spoken throughout the U.S. in daily healthcare encounters, says the inaugural edition of the Healthcare World Language Index published by AMN Healthcare Language Services, a provider of healthcare language interpretation services. Based on assessing 110 million minutes of interpretation services, the top 10 languages other than English used in patient/healthcare provider encounters nationally are:
| Language | Percent used |
| 1. Spanish | 74% |
| 2. Vietnamese | 3.8% |
| 3. American Sign Language | 3.6% |
| 4. Arabic | 3.5% |
| 5. Mandarin | 3.0% |
| 6. Russian | 1.8% |
| 7. Cantonese | 1.7% |
| 8. Portugese | 1.2% |
| 9. Haitian Creole | 1.0% |
| 10. Korean | 0.9% |
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