Statistics Norway

Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

9   Pupils receiving mother language traning or biligual education1, by mother tongue. 1 October 20032
Mother tongue Number of pupils
Total 19 695
Urdu 2 517
Somali 1 891
Kurdish 1 859
Arabic 1 777
Vietnamese 1 585
Albanian 1 405
Bosnian 1 002
Turkish  915
Tamil  740
Russian  606
Spanish  603
Persian  541
English  506
Dari  343
Thai  341
Punjabi  238
German  223
Polish  196
Pashto  183
Phillipine  174
Chinese  152
Finnish  142
Serbian  140
French  136
Icelandic  116
Dutch  104
Portuguese  100
Swahili 97
Chechen 69
Oromo 65
Croatian 60
Amharic 59
Hindi 59
Tigrinia 54
Berber 52
Cantonese 50
Bengali 24
Rumanian 24
Kirundi 22
Hebrew 20
Kinyarwanda 20
Hungarian 20
Lithuanian 19
Bulgarian 17
Greek 16
Armenian 15
Latvian 15
Other  383
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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