Home Primary Language (Ohio)

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The Home Primary Language field is used to identify the primary language spoken at a person's home. This field is used in various state reports and program reporting.

The following table describes all current Home Primary Language values available.

Code/Standard Code Name
QOT / ZXX Language not included in option list (other)
AKA Akan
SQI Albanian
AMH Amharic
ARA Arabic
HYE Armenian
BAM Bambara
BAS Basa, Basaa
BEN Bengali
BOS Bosnian
BUL Bulgarian
MYA Burmese
KHM Central Khmer, Khmer
ZHO Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese
LOU Louisiana Creole French
HRV Croatian
CES Czech
DAN Danish
DIN Dinka
ENG English
EWE Ewe
FIL Filipino, Pilipino
FRA French
FUL Fulah, Fula, Fulan
KAT Georgian
DEU German
ELL Greek
GUJ Gujarati
HAT Haitian, Haitian Creole
HEB Hebrew
HIN Hindi
HMN Hmong, Mong
HUN Hungarian
IBO Igbo
IND Indonesian
ITA Italian
JPN Japanese
KSW Karen, Karen Languages
KIK Kikuyu, Gikuyu
KIN Kinyarwanda
KOR Korean
KQO Krahn
KRI Krio
KUR Kurdish
LAO Lao
LIT Lithuanian
YMM Maay
MKD Macedonian
MSA Malay
MAL Malayalam
MAN Mandingo
MAR Marathi
MAH Marshallese
MYN Mayan languages; K'iche, Yucatec, Q'eqchi, Mam, Ixil
MON Mongolian
NAV Navajo, Navaho
NEP Nepali
NYA Nyanja, Chichewa, Chewa
ORM Oromo
PAN Panjabi, Punjabi
FAS Persian, Farsi
PON Pohnpeian
POL Polish
POR Portuguese
PUS Pushto, Pashto
RON Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
RUS Russian
SRP Serbian
SNA Shona
SIN Sinhala, Sinhalese
SOM Somali
SPA Spanish
SWE Swedish
TGL Tagalog
TGK Tajik
TAM Tamil
TEL Telugu
THA Thai
TIR Tigrinya
TSN Tswana
TUR Turkish
TWI Twi
UKR Ukrainian
URD Urdu
UZB Uzbek
VIE Vietnamese
WOL Wolof
YOR Yoruba
SWH Swahili