Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Non-English Church units in the United States and Canada

Over the years, the Church has organized a large number of non-English speaking units in the United States. Oftentimes members who attend these units have recently immigrated to the United States or live in a community where English is not the only widely spoken language. Below is a list of all of the non-English speaking Units with the language spoken and the number of wards and branches.
  • Thai - 1 ward (combined with Laotian speakers)
  • Fijian - 1 branch
  • Russian - 1 branch
  • German - 1 ward
  • Chinese (Cantonese) - 1 ward
  • Navajo - 2 branches (outside of stakes on reservations)
  • Chinese (Mandarin) - 1 ward, 2 branches
  • Tagalog - 1 ward, 2 branches
  • Marshallese - 3 branches
  • Vietnamese - 4 branches
  • Cambodian - 1 ward, 3 branches
  • Laotian - 2 wards (one combined with Thai speakers), 2 branches
  • Haitian-Creole - 4 branches
  • Portuguese - 1 ward, 7 branches
  • Hmong - 2 wards, 9 branches
  • Korean - 2 wards, 11 branches
  • Chinese (unspecified) - 5 wards, 9 branches
  • Samoan - 33 wards, 1 branch
  • Tongan - 5 stakes, 54 wards, 8 branches
  • Spanish - 8 stakes, ~244 wards, ~407 branches
There has been tremendous growth in Spanish speaking branches over the past five years and now probably around one quarter of the stakes of the Church have a spanish speaking unit.

2 comments:

  1. I'd love to know more specifically from which stake those units are from and what their names are. Also I'd love to know such foreign language units other than that of its locating country.

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  2. Twenty dedicated American Sign Language units (16 branches, 4 wards), and a branch in Seoul, South Korea.

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