Statistics Norway

Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

8   Pupils receiving mother language traning or biligual education1, by mother tongue. 1 October 20062
Mother tongue Number of pupils
Total 22 166
Urdu 2 395
Somali 2 388
Arabic 1 940
Kurdish 1 710
Vietnamese 1 496
Albanian 1 283
Turkish 1 137
Tamil  934
Bosnian  754
Thai  681
English  667
Polish  641
Russian  641
Spanish  528
Dari  526
Persian  478
Chechen  355
German  318
Punjabi  241
Dutch  230
Phillipine  207
Pashto  197
Swahili  163
Chinese  158
Serbian  153
French  138
Lithuanian  137
Portuguese  134
Burmesisk  114
Tigrinia 82
Icelandic 68
Finnish 67
Amharic 66
Hindi 61
Kirundi 60
Oromo 58
Croatian 48
Karen 41
Cantonese 40
Other  831
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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