Statistics Norway

Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

8 Pupils receiving mother language traning or biligual education1, by mother tongue. 1 October 20072
Mother tongue Number of pupils
Total 22 084
Urdu 2 537
Somali 2 460
Arabic 1 939
Kurdish 1 509
Vietnamese 1 434
Albanian 1 234
Turkish 1 210
Tamil 1 113
Bosnian  853
Thai  633
English  625
Polish  619
Russian  618
Spanish  514
Dari  413
Persian  410
Chechen  407
German  309
Punjabi  212
Dutch  243
Phillipine  195
Pashto  181
Swahili  161
Chinese  158
Serbian  153
French  151
Lithuanian  142
Portuguese  137
Burmesisk  132
Tigrinia  101
Icelandic 68
Finnish 66
Amharic 63
Hindi 60
Kirundi 55
Oromo 53
Croatian 50
Karen 48
Cantonese 40
Other  778
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.

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