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Provision for Community Language Learning in Scotland: Final Report February 2006

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Appendix A: Languages spoken by Scottish school children

This list is based on information supplied by local authorities which conduct surveys of the community languages spoken by children in authority schools. The contributing authorities are: City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow City, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Falkirk 17, Angus, Aberdeen City and Moray.

Language

Authority

1. Afrikaans

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Angus

2. Albanian

East Lothian, Aberdeen

3. Amharic

West Lothian, Dundee, Aberdeen

4. Arabic

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Falkirk, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

5. Bahasa Indonesia

Stirling, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

6. Bahasa Malayasia

City of Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

7. Bari Pojulu

Dundee

8. Belorussian

Aberdeen

9. Bemba

Dundee, Aberdeen

10. Bengali

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

11. Bosnian

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Dundee

12. Bulgarian

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Aberdeen

13. Cantonese

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Falkirk, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

14. Catalan

City of Edinburgh

15. Chechen

Dumfries & Galloway

16. Chichewa (Chewa, Nyanja)

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

17. Chinese (unspecified)

Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Argyll & Bute

18. Creole

City of Edinburgh, Moray

19. Czech

City of Edinburgh, Angus

20. Danish

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Stirling, Argyll & Bute

21. Dari

Aberdeen

22. Dutch

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

23. Edo

Aberdeen

24. Estonian

Aberdeen

25. Faroese

Aberdeen

26. Farsi (Persian)

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Falkirk, Aberdeen

27. Fijian

City of Edinburgh, Moray

28. Finnish

City of Edinburgh, Stirling, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

29. Flemish

Angus, Aberdeen

30. French

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

31. Gaelic

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll & Bute

32. German

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

33. Greek

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray

34. Gujarati

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

35. Hakka

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

36. Hallam

Argyll & Bute

37. Hausa

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

38. Hebrew

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

39. Hindi

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Dundee, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

40. Hungarian

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Dundee, Aberdeen

41. Ibibio

City of Edinburgh

42. Ibo

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Dundee

43. Icelandic

City of Edinburgh, Stirling, Aberdeen

44. Ilocano

City of Edinburgh, Dundee

45. Italian

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

46. Jamaican

City of Edinburgh

47. Japanese

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Aberdeen

48. Kagoro

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian

49. Kadazan

West Lothian

50. Kannada

Aberdeen

51. Katchi

Dundee

52. Kikuyu

South Lanarkshire, Argyll & Bute

53. Konkani

City of Edinburgh, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray

54. Korean

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

55. Krio

City of Edinburgh

56. Kurdish

City of Edinburgh

57. Lithuanian

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Aberdeen

58. Luganda

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

59. Maithili

Argyll & Bute

60. Malayalam

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Aberdeen

61. Maltese

Dundee, Angus

62. Marathi

Aberdeen

63. Memon

Dundee

64. Min Nan (Taiwanese)

Aberdeen

65. Mirpuri

Dundee

66. Mongolian

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian

67. Ndebele

Dundee

68. Nepali

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire,

69. Norwegian

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, Stirling, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

70. Olongo

Dundee

71. Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Falkirk, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

72. Polish

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

73. Portuguese

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Dumfries & Galloway, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Moray, Argyll & Bute

74. Pushtu

City of Edinburgh, Dundee

75. Putonghua (Mandarin)

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

76. Romanian

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Aberdeen, Moray

77. Russian

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

78. Serbian

West Lothian, Dundee

79. 'Serbo-Croat'

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Moray

80. Serer

City of Edinburgh

81. Setswana

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

82. Shona

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen

83. Sinhala (Singhalese)

Stirling, Aberdeen

84. Slovak

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian

85. Slovene

West Lothian

86. Somali

City of Edinburgh

87. Sotho

City of Edinburgh, Stirling

88. Sourashtra

Aberdeen

89. Spanish

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

90. Swahili

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Aberdeen, Argyll & Bute

91. Swazi

East Lothian

92. Swedish

City of Edinburgh, Stirling, Angus, Moray, Argyll & Bute

93. Tagalog

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

94. Tamil

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen

95. Telugu (Tengu)

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen

96. Thai

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

97. Turkish

City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Stirling, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

98. Turkmani

Aberdeen

99. Twi

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

100. Ukrainian

City of Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire,

101. Urdu/ Punjabi

City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, Falkirk, Dundee, Angus, Aberdeen, Moray, Argyll & Bute

102. Urhobo

Aberdeen

103. Vietnamese

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Moray

104. Welsh

Stirling, Moray, Argyll & Bute

105. Yoruba

City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen

106. Zulu

City of Edinburgh, West Lothian

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