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Table 1.15 Main home language in publicly funded schools, 2006
Language | Number | Language | Number | Language | Number |
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Number of languages | 137 | Turkish | 345 | Sign Language | 135 |
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| Chinese (Modern Standard/Mandarin) | 283 | Malay/Bahasa Malaysia | 130 |
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Number of pupils | Scots | 280 | Slovak | 128 |
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English | 673,874 | Russian | 278 | Dutch | 126 |
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Punjabi | 4,672 | Italian | 255 | Latvian | 112 |
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Urdu | 3,771 | Farsi/Iranian/Persian | 259 | Kurdish | 111 |
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Cantonese | 1,509 | Tagalog/Filipino | 228 | Thai | 106 |
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Polish | 1,508 | Malayalam | 194 | Shona | 105 |
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Arabic | 1,131 | Somali | 194 | Hakka | 100 |
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Gaelic (Scottish) | 656 | Hindi | 190 | |
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French | 649 | Portuguese | 186 | Not known/not disclosed | 7,537 |
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Bengali/Bangala | 532 | Tamil | 171 |
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Spanish | 391 | Lithuanian | 160 | |
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German | 383 | Swahili/Kiswahili | 164 | Other (1) | 1,538 |
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(1) Languages in the 'Other' category are: Afrikaans, Akan/Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bajuni, Bantu, Belorussian, Bemba, Berber, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano/Visayan, Chechen, Chichewa, Coorge, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Duri, Edo/Bini, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish, Gaelic (Irish), Georgian, Greek, Gujerati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian/Magyar, Ibo/Igbo, Icelandic, Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia, Ishan, Isoko, Japanese, Jola, Kagoro, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khmer, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Konkani, Korean, Kutchi, Lingala, Luganda, Malagasy, Malayan, Maltese, Mandinka, Marathi, Memmoni, Memni, Mirpuri, Moldavian, Mongolian, Ndbele, Nepalese, Ngoni, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Nyanja/Chichewa/Chewa, Pashto/Afghani, Pular, Romanian, Romany, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Setswana, Sinhalese, Slovene, Sri Lankan, Swedish, Telugu, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tonga, Tumbuka, Turkmani, Twi, Ukrainian, Urhobo, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba and Zulu
Local authority figures on page 45.
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