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LanguageTrak report shows Somali, Hmong among top requested languages in Minneapolis

The latest LanguageTrak report shows Spanish, Somali, Hmong, Vietnamese and Russian atop the list of over-the-phone interpretation requests in Minneapolis, according to an article in the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The city is home to a distinctive array of immigrant and refugee communities, the article noted. The quarterly report, released by Language Line Services, analyzes over 20 million phone interpreter requests fielded by the company over a year’s time. The report also found that after spanish, the most requested languages for interpretation across the country were Arabic, Vietnamese and Mandarin.