Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

11   Minority language pupils1, by mother tongue. 1 September 20012
Mother tongue Number of pupils
I alt 40 808
Urdu 4 744
Vietnamese 2 779
Arabian 2 682
English 2 471
Albanian 2 468
Somali 2 220
Kurdish 2 050
Spanish 1 981
Turkish 1 940
Bosnian 1 811
Tamil 1 510
Persian 1 057
Russian  834
Philippine  786
Punjabi  767
German  742
Polish  702
Swedish  605
Icelandic  549
Thai  540
Chinese  507
Finnish  479
Serbian  404
Danish  373
French  342
Dutch  338
Hindi  336
Portugese  335
Berber  321
Croatian  240
Dari  239
Tigrinya  235
Greek  184
Italian  149
Pashto  144
Swahili  137
Hungarian  110
Cantonese  108
Wolof  104
Hebrew 99
Bulgarian 94
Amharic 87
Roumanian 83
Akan (Twi) 66
Korean 64
Bengali 60
Oromo 59
Afrikaan 53
Makedonian 50
Romani 48
Khmer 45
Faroese 41
Czech 41
Singhalese 40
Lithuanian 37
Japanese 35
Estonian 34
Baluchi 31
Tigre 31
Armenian 29
Ibo 29
Luganda 24
Mandingo 22
Cebuano 21
Azerbaijani 19
Creole 19
Slovak 19
Malay 18
Latvian 17
Mende 17
Fulani 16
Kinyarwanda 16
Syriac-Assyrian 15
Lingala 14
Chechen 14
Turkmen 14
Ukrainian 14
Gujarati 13
Nepali 13
Flemish 12
Hausa 12
Malagasy 11
Ewe 10
Georgian 9
Yoruba 9
Bambara 8
Gbandi 8
Kirundi 8
Uzbek 8
Aseri-turkish 7
Bahasa Indonesia 7
Irish 7
Moldavian 7
Shona 6
Temne 6
Ga-adangbe 5
Greenlandic 5
Ilocano 5
Kikuyu 5
Krio 5
Malayalam 5
Slovenian 5
Tibetan 5
Kashmiri 4
Kongo 4
Tonga 4
Addouma :
Ayizo :
Bariba :
Bemba :
Beriberi-manga :
Bissa :
Burmese :
Crioulo :
Fiji :
Hakka :
Hunanese :
Belarussian :
Iban :
Kamba :
Kannada :
Kazakh :
Khasi :
Kirghiz :
Kru :
Laothian :
Luo :
Malawi :
Malinke :
Maltese :
Mandè :
Mongolian :
Naga :
Newari :
Nyanja :
Rajasthani :
Romansh :
Serer :
Setswana :
Sindhi :
Somba :
Tajik :
Tatar :
Telugu :
Tuareg :
Tuvin :
Uiguric :
Zulu :
Other  757
1  Foreign language pupils are pupils having other mother tongues than Norwegian and Sami.
2  Pupils counted by local governments are included in figures of foreign language pupils.

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