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Alphabetical list of 20 most commonly interpreted languages in MN.

Amharic/Ethiopian Anuak Arabic-Standard
Arabic-Sudanese Bosnian Chinese, Mandarin
Dinka Hmong, White Hmong, Green
Karen Khmer (Cambodian) Korean
Lao Nuer Oromo
Polish Russian Somali
Spanish Tigrinyan Vietnamese

Alphabetical list of 300+ languages.

Adangme Adere see Harari Afar Afghan
Afrikaans Akan/Twi Albanian Amharic/Ethiopian see Top 20 List
Amzgo/Guerrero Anaang Anuak see Top 20 List  
Arabic Arabic-Standard see Top 20 List Arabic-Sudanese see Top 20 List  
Arawak Armenian Asante see Akan  
       
Bahasa-Indonesia Bahasa-Malaysia see Malay Bandi/Gbandi Bari (Sudan)
Basaa (Cameroon) Bassa (Liberia) Behdini Belarusan/Belorussian
Bengali Berber see Tachelhit Bhojpuri Bhutanese
Please note that the Bhutanese refugees resettled in MN in 2008 primarily speak Nepali, not Bhutanese.
Bohemian see Czech Bosnian see Top 20 List Bruhui Bulgarian
Burmese      
       
Cakchiquel see Kaqchikel Cambodian see Top 20 List Cantonese Caribe see Garifuna
Catalan-Valencian-Balear Cebuano/Visayan Cham, Western Chatino, Nopala
Chatino Chhatisgarhi Chinantec Chinese, Hakka see Hakka
Chinese, Mandarin see Top 20 List Chinese, Min Nan see Taiwanese Chinese, Yue see Cantonese Chippewa see Ojibwe
Chochotec Chol Chontal Chuukese
Creole see note below Cuicatec, Tepeuxila Cutchi Czech/Bohemian
Please note: Creole denotes a variety of languages. Some languages it may denote include: Cutchi, Haitian Creole, Krio (Sierre Leone), Sango, Kituba, Arabic-Sudanese, Petjo, Negerhollands, Skepi Creole Dutch, Jamaican Creole, Sranan, Gullah, and Tok Pisin.
       
Dakota/Sioux/Santee Dan see Gio Danish Dari/Farsi, Eastern
Dinka see Top 20 List Dutch Dzongkha see Bhutanese  
       
Ebon see Marshallese Edo-Benin Efik English
English Creole see note below Esan-Anwain Estonian Ethiopian see Amharic
Ewe      
Please note: English Creole and English Pidgin denote a variety of languages. Some languages they may denote include: Garifuna, Krio (Sierre Leone), Krio (Liberia), Jamaican Creole, Guyanese Creole English, Gullah/Geechee, Pidgin-Nigerian, Pidgin-Cameroon, Sranan, Islander Creole, Bislama, Hawai'i Creole English, Ngatik, Kriol, Pijin, and Tok Pisin.
       
Fante see Akan Farsi, Eastern see Dari Farsi, Western see Persian Filipino
Finnish Flemish French  
Fulfulde Fulfulde, Adamawa see Sanyo    
       
Ga Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gallinya
Ganda/Luganda Garifuna Gband see Bandi Gbe see Ewe
Georgian German Gikuyu Gio/Dan/Yacouba/Yakuba
Goan/Goanese/Konkani Grebo Greek Guerrero see Amzgo
Gujarati      
       
Haaka Haitian Creole Harar Harari/Adere
Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi
Hmong see Top 20 List Hokkien/Teochew Huarijio Huave
Hungarian      
       
Ibibio Ibilo Ibo/Igbo Icelandic
Igbo see Ibo Indonesian-Bahasa see Bahasa-Indonesian Italian

 

       
Japanese      
       
Kachchi Kahlkia see Mongolian Kalenjin Kanarese see Kannada
Kannada/Kanarese Kaqchikel Karen see Top 20 List Karen, S'gaw
Kete Kazakh Khaskura see Nepali Khmer/Cambodian see Top 20 List
Khmer Lue K'iche' Kirghiz Kisi (Kena)
Kisi, Southern (Liberia) Kissi, Northern (Guinea) Kiswahili see Swahili Kituba
Klao see Kru Klaoh see Kru Klau see Kru Konkani/Konkanese
Konkani, Goanese see Goan Konya see Maninka Konyanka see Maninka Korean see Top 20 List
Kosraean Kpelle, Guinea Kpelle, Liberia Krahn, Western
Krepe see Ewe Krio (Liberia) may refer to either Liberian English or Krio (Sierre Leone) Krio (Sierra Leone) Kroo see Kru
Kru/Kroo/Klao/Klaoh/Klau Kru/Kumen-Tepo Krumen-Teop see Kru Kuku
Kunama Kurdish Kurdish, Northwestern see Behdini  
       
Lahu Lakota Lao/Laotian see Top 20 List Latvian
Lebanese Liberian English Lingala Lingao
Lithuanian Luba-Kasai see Tshiluba Luba-Katanga Lue
Luganda see Ganda Luo    
       
Maay, Somali see Somali-Maay Magyar see Hungarian Malay Malayalam
Mam Mandarin see Top 20 List Mandingo Mandinka see Mandingo
Maninka/Konya/Konyanka Mano/Mawe Marathi Marshallese/Ebon
Mawe see Mano Mazatec Mende Meta
Mien Min Nan see Taiwanese Mina (Camaroon) Mina (India)
Mixe, Totontepec Mixtec Moldovan see Romaninan Mong see Hmong, Green
Mongolian/Kahlkia Morisyen Murele  
       
Nahuatl Nepali Norwegian Nuer see Top 20 List
       
Ojibwe/Chippewa Oromiffa see Top 20 List Oromo, Borana-Arsi-Guji see Gallinya Oromo-Eastern see Harar
Oromo-West Central see Oromiffa Ossetian/Osetin Otomi  
       
Pahari, Eastern see Nepali Pashto, Central Persian/Farsi, Western Pidgin, Cameroon
Please note: Patois denotes a variety of languages. Some languages it may denote include: Krio (Sierre Leone), Haitian Creole, and Tayo.
Pidgin, Nigerian Polish see Top 20 List Popo see Ewe Portuguese
Poqomam Pulaar Pular Punjabi, Eastern/Punjabi
Punjabi, Western/Lahndi      
       
Quechua Quiche see K'iche' Quichua

Quottu see Harar

       
Romanian Rundi Russian see Top 20 List Rwanda
       
Samoan Sango Santee Sisseton see Dakota Sanyo
Sapo/Southern Krahn/Sarpo Sarpo see Sapo Serbo-Croatian

S'gaw see Karen-S'gaw

Shan Shilluk Shona Sidamo
Sindhi Singhalese see Sinhala Sinhala/Singhalese/Sinhalese Sinhalese see Sinhala
Sioux see Dakota Slabonian see Slavonian Slavonian/Slabonian/Slovene Slovak/Slovakian
Slovene see Slavonian Somali see Top 20 List Somali-Maay Soninke

Somali-Bantu refers to an ethnic group which speaks various languages including various Bantu languages.
Somali-Maay is alternatively listed as a separate language or as a dialect of Somali. In any case it is not mutually intelligible with Somali.

Southern Krahn see Sapo Spanish see Top 20 List Susu Swahili/Kiswashili
Swedish      
       
Tachelhit/Berber Tagalog see Filipino Tamil Tarahumara, Central
Tajik/Tajiki Telugu Teochew see Hokkien

Tepo see Kru

Thai Themne/Temne Tibetan Tigre
Tigrinya see Top 20 List Tlapanec, Acatepec Tlapanec, Malinaltepec Tojolabal
Totonac Tshiluba Turkish Twi see Akan
Tzeltal Tz'utujil/Tzutuhil    
       
Ukranian Urdu Urhobo Uzbek
       
Vai Valencian see Catalan Vietnamese see Top 20 List Visayan see Cebuano
       
Wolof      
       
Yacouba see Gio Yakuba see Gio Yao see Mien Yiddish
Yoruba

Yue see Cantonese

   
       
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Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice

National Code of Ethics for Interpreters in Health Care, July 2004
National Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Health Care, September 2005

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Interpreting Skills Tests

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Governmentally Designated Interpreter Oral Certification Exams

Consortium for State Court Interpreter Certification Oral Exam   Language
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Federal Court Interpreter Certification Oral Exam   Language
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Interpreter Skills Tests (More tests may be added)


Arizona Medical Interpreter Competency Exam   Language  
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Language Line Medical Certification Test--Consecutive interpreting

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Language Line Court Certification Test--Consecutive interpreting

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Language Line Interpreter Skills Test--Consecutive interpreting

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U of M Trin 3001 Introduction to Interpreting (45 hrs, 3 sem cr)   U of M Trin 3002 Consecutive Interpreting (45 hrs, 3 sem cr)   U of M TRIN 3004 Simultaneous Interpreting (45 hrs, 3 sem cr)
U of M Medical Terminology (45 hrs, 3 sem cr)        
Bridging the Gap (40 hours)   IIMN Orientation to Interpreting (24 hrs)   Century College Orientation to Interpreting (24 hrs)
MN State Court Ethics Training (8 hrs)   MN State Court Orientation to Interpreting (16 hrs)   MN State Court Advanced Interpreting Skills Course

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