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Table 1.15 Main home language in publicly funded schools, 2007 (1)
Language | Number | Language | Number | Language | Number |
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Number of languages | 138 | Turkish | 371 | Swahili/Kiswahili | 194 |
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| | Tagalog/Filipino | 343 | Latvian | 173 |
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Number of pupils (1) | | Russian | 329 | Dutch | 152 |
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English | 664,497 | Scots | 309 | Bahasa Malaysia | 139 |
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Punjabi | 4,682 | Malayalam | 307 | Sign Language | 135 |
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Urdu | 4,002 | Chinese (Mandarin) | 301 | Kurdish | 130 |
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Polish | 3,347 | Farsi/Iranian/Persian | 263 | Pashto | 129 |
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Cantonese | 1,508 | Slovak | 245 | Thai | 123 |
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Arabic | 1,277 | Italian | 244 | Shona | 109 |
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French | 740 | Hindi | 242 | Hungarian/Magyar | 103 |
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Gaelic (Scottish) | 638 | Lithuanian | 240 | Not known/ not disclosed | 3,804 |
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Bengali/Bangala | 531 | Portuguese | 238 |
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German | 473 | Tamil | 212 | | |
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Spanish | 412 | Somali | 205 | Other (2) | 1,877 |
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(1) Data includes 1,131 pupils who are not based in their reporting school and hence are likely to be double counted.
(2) Languages in the 'Other' category are: Afrikaans, Akan/Twi, Albanian, Algerian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Indonesia, Bajuni, Basque, Belorussian, Bemba, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano/Visayan, Chechen, Coorge, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Doric, Duri, Edo/Bini, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish, Gaelic (Irish), Georgian, Goran, Greek, Gujarati, Hakka, Hausa, Hebrew, Hokkien, Ibo/Igbo, Icelandic, Japanese, Jola, Kagoro, Kalahari, Kannada, Kaonde, Kashmiri, Katchi/Kutchi, Khmer, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Konkani, Korean, Lingala, Luganda, Malagasy, Maltese, Mandinica, Marathi, Memmoni, Mirpuri, Moldavian, Mongolian, Mupun, Ndbele, Nepalese, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyanja/Chichewa/Chewa, Romanian, Romany, Rugika, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Setswana, Shanghainese, Silheti/Sylheti, Sinhalese, Slovene, Sourashtra, Swedish, Telugu, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tonga, Tswana, Turkmani, Ukrainian, Urhobo, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Local authority figures on page 48.
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