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Friday, March 29
Twenty-six, according to a recent survey by language-services company CyraCom International. The study showed that, in addition to English, Chicago area hospitals used 26 languages for over-the-phone interpretation in the first half of 2004. According to the study, the top five languages used were Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Cantonese and Russian.