The APA community in Washington is incredibly diverse, encompassing people from over 40 different countries who speak over 100 different languages and dialects. Additionally, some languages have several writing systems. Below is a non-exhaustive list of APA languages:
- Amoy
- Bangla
- Bengali
- Bhojpuri
- Bikol
- Burmese
- Butuanon
- Cebuano
- Chinese
- Mandarin (spoken)
- Cantonese (spoken)
- Simplified Chinese (written)
- Traditional Chinese (written)
- Chamorro
- Chuukese
- Dzongkha
- English
- Falam
- Fijian
- Formosan
- Fukienese
- Fuzhou
- Gujarati
- Hakha Chin
- Hakka
- Hawaiian
- Hiligaynon
- Hindi
- Hmong
- White dialect
- Green dialect
- Dananshan dialect
- Ilocano
- Ilongo
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kankanaey
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Kmhmu
- Korean
- Lao
- Maithili
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Marshallese
- Mien
- Mongolian
- Nepalese
- Oriya
- Pampango
- Punjabi
- Putonghua
- S’gaw Karen
- Samoan
- Sanskrit
- Sinhalese
- Sindhi
- Sylheti
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Taishanese
- Taiwanese
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Teochew
- Tetun
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tongan
- Tulu
- Uighur
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Visayan
- Waray-Waray
- Pangasinan
- Punjabi
- Pushtu