Table 1.14 Main home language in publicly funded schools, 2008 (1)
Language | Number | Language | Number | Language | Number |
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Number of languages | 147 | Malayalam | 406 | Swahili/Kiswahili | 208 |
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| | Tagalog/Filipino | 406 | Latvian | 199 |
Number of pupils (1) | | Russian | 363 | Dutch | 150 |
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English | 653,731 | Turkish | 358 | Pashto | 150 |
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Polish | 4,677 | Chinese (Mandarin) | 323 | Bahasa Malaysia | 142 |
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Punjabi | 4,622 | Slovak | 318 | Hungarian/Magyar | 139 |
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Urdu | 4,207 | Scots | 306 | Kurdish | 139 |
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Cantonese | 1,506 | Hindi | 292 | Thai | 135 |
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Arabic | 1,403 | Lithuanian | 290 | Shona | 134 |
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French | 788 | Italian | 265 | Sign Language | 131 |
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Gaelic (Scottish) | 681 | Portuguese | 263 | Not known/ not disclosed | 2,219 |
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Bengali/Bangala | 539 | Farsi/Iranian/Persian | 260 |
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German | 496 | Somali | 246 | | |
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Spanish | 463 | Tamil | 243 | Other (2) | 2,234 |
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(1) Data includes 1,859 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, Balochi, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano/Visayan, Chechen, Coorge, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Doric, Duri, Edo/Bini, Esan, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish, Frisian, Gaelic (Irish), Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurani, Hakka, Hausa, Hebrew, Herero, Hokkien, Ibo/Igbo, Icelandic, Idoma, Isekiri, Japanese, Jju, Jola, Jula, Kagoro, Kalabari, Kannada, Kashmiri, Katchi/Kutchi, Khmer, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Konkani, Korean, Lingala, Luganda, Malagasy, Maltese, Mandinka, Marathi, Memmoni, Mirpuri, Moldavian, Mongolian, Ndebele, Nepalese, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Nyanja/Chichewa/Chewa, Romanian, Romany, Rugika, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Setswana, Shanghainese, Silheti/Sylheti, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovene, Soninke, Sourashtra, Swati, Swedish, Telugu, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tonga, Tongan, Tswana, Tulu, Turkmani, Ukrainian, Urhobo, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.
Local authority figures on page 45.