Statistics Norway

Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

9   Pupils receiving mother language traning or biligual education1, by mother tongue. 1 October 20042
Mother tongue Number of pupils
Total 19 713
Urdu 2 590
Somali 1 983
Kurdish 1 749
Arabic 1 737
Vietnamese 1 483
Albanian 1 274
Turkish  926
Bosnian  875
Russian  726
Tamil  717
English  623
Spanish  567
Persian  503
Thai  419
Dari  375
German  262
Chechen  241
Polish  239
Punjabi  217
Serbian  177
Phillipine  169
Chinese  135
Pashto  123
Finnish  122
French  119
Dutch  118
Swahili  117
Icelandic  102
Portuguese 95
Tigrinia 61
Amharic 59
Berber 59
Hindi 58
Cantonese 53
Croatian 46
Oromo 37
Kirundi 36
Lithuanian 34
Roumanian 24
Malay 18
Bengali 17
Bulgarian 17
Hebrew 17
Nepali 17
Armenian 16
Greek 16
Italian 15
Other  330
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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