Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

12   Pupils receiving mother language traning or biligual education1, by mother tongue. 1 September 20012
Mother tongue Number of pupils
I alt 18 611
Urdu 2 952
Vietnamese 1 669
Arabic 1 438
Somali 1 411
Albanian 1 363
Kurdish 1 285
Bosnian 1 122
Turkish 1 011
Spanish  781
Tamil  721
English  676
Russian  516
Persian  436
Punjabi  309
Polish  237
German  228
Phillipine  222
Finnish  199
Icelandic  176
Serbian  168
Thai  161
Chinese  149
Dari  120
Dutch  119
French 88
Croatian 82
Portuguese 77
Hindi 70
Swahili 58
Cantonese 50
Pashto 48
Berber 46
Oromo 42
Greek 35
Tigrinia 35
Amharic 34
Khmer 23
Bulgarian 21
Roumanian 21
Hungarian 21
Bengali 20
Italian 19
Turkmen 17
Hebrew 15
Lithuanian 15
Swedish 13
Estonian 12
Czech 11
Akan (Twi) 10
Armenian 9
Singhalese 9
Wolof 9
Faroese 8
Gujarati 8
Kinyarwanda 8
Korean 8
Tigre 8
Malay 7
Japanese 6
Nepali 6
Slovak 6
Syriac-Assyrian 6
Danish 5
Lingala 5
Macedonian 5
Georgian 4
Greenlandic 4
Creole 4
Ukrainian 4
Afrikaans :
Aseri-Turkish :
Azerbaijani :
Baluchi :
Bemba :
Bissa :
Cebuano :
Criuolo :
Ewe :
Flemish :
Ga-adangbe :
Gbandi :
Hausa :
Belarussian :
Ibo :
Khai :
Kikuyu :
Kongo :
Krio :
Latvian :
Luganda :
Malagasy :
Malayalam :
Mandè :
Mende :
Moldavian :
Shona :
Sindhi :
Slovenian :
Temne :
Chechen :
Tuareg :
Other 78
1  Mother language training are additional training in the mother tongue of foreign laguage pupils. Bilingual education are education where the pupil's mother tongue is used in the education.
2  Pupils counted by local governments are included in figures of foreign language pupils.

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