most common languages are Spanish (2.88%), Yup’ik (2.87%), Tagalog (1.54%), and Iñupiaq (1.06%). A total of 5.2% of Alaskans speak one of the state's 22 indigenous languages , known locally as Native languages. Footnotes 1. Data was retrieved from the U.S. Census Bureau on February 9, 2009 at http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/censr-28.pdf 2. Data was