Most common non-English languages spoken in Welsh schools in 2020

Published by D. Clark, Aug 9, 2024
This statistic ranks the ten most spoken languages, other than English and Welsh, in Welsh schools in 2020, by number of speakers. The most commonly spoken language was Polish with over 4.9 thousand speakers, Arabic at 3.4 thousand.

Non-English main home languages ranked by number of speakers in Welsh schools in 2020

CharacteristicNumber of speakers
Polish 4,961
Arabic 3,484
Bengali 3,019
Urdu 1,508
Chinese 1,466
Panjabi 1,242
Romanian 1,091
Somali 852
Portuguese 846
Tagalog/Filipino 830
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Release date

June 2020

Region

United Kingdom (Wales)

Survey time period

2020

Age group

5 years and older

Special properties

Students

Supplementary notes

*English or Welsh.

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