U.S. Courts press release: “A total of 117 languages required interpretation in federal court proceedings in fiscal year 2006 (the 12-month period ending September 30, 2006). The overwhelming majority – 95 percent – of the 205,550 language-interpreting events were in Spanish…Other frequently used languages were Mandarin (1,480 events) Vietnamese (988), Arabic (908), Korean (871), Cantonese (868), Russian (610), Portugese (492), Haitian Creole (447), and Punjabi (375).”