Statistics Norway

Education statistics. Primary and lower secondary schools

8 Pupils receiving mother language traning or biligual education1, by mother tongue. 1 October 20082
Mother tongue Number of pupils
Total 22 156
Somali 2 570
Urdu 2 440
Arabic 1 913
Polish 1 702
Kurdish 1 423
Vietnamese 1 272
Albanian 1 095
Turkish 1 031
Tamil  806
Thai  639
Bosnian  518
Russian  506
English  480
German  472
Spanish  439
Dari  395
Chechen  356
Persian  286
Lithuanian  262
Dutch  192
Swhaili  185
Phillipine  184
Portuguese  176
Punjabi  151
Serbian  151
French  136
Tigrinia  135
Pashto  131
Chinese  128
Burmese  110
Karen 86
Amharic 58
Romanian 55
Kirundi 50
Other 1 623
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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