Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

11   Pupils receiving mother language training or bilingual education1, by mother tongue. 1 October 20022
Mother tongue Number of pupils
I alt 18 734
   
Urdu 2 807
Arabic 1 679
Somali 1 643
Vietnamese 1 574
Kurdish 1 546
Albanian 1 335
Bosnian  949
Turkish  932
Tamil  697
Spanish  660
English  519
Persian  517
Russian  497
Punjabi  331
German  251
Dari  247
Thai  233
Polish  185
Serbian  174
Finnish  148
Phillipine  147
Icelandic  147
Pashto  141
Chinese  135
Dutch 94
French 89
Hindi 66
Portuguese 66
Croatian 58
Swahili 58
Amharic 57
Oromo 53
Berber 46
Cantonese 43
Tigrinia 36
Greek 24
Bengali 23
TSJETSJENSK 20
Hungarian 19
Bulgarian 18
FÆRØYISK 18
Hebrew 18
Roumanian 16
Armenian 14
Other  404
1  Mother language training is additional training in the mother tongue of foreign language pupils. Bilingual education is 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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