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Number of students with a non-English main home language in Scottish schools in 2023, by language

Characteristic	Number of speakers
Polish	17,634
Urdu	7,305
Arabic	6,344
Scots	5,595
Punjabi	3,198
Romanian	2,495
Ukrainian	2,456
Chinese (Modern Standard/Mandarin)	2,357
Chinese (Cantonese)	2,004
Russian	1,956
Spanish	1,803
Portuguese	1,232
Bengali	1,221
Hindi	1,184
Lithuanian	1,177
Malayalam	1,136
Italian	1,091
Yoruba	965
Kurdish	954
French	947
Tamil	879
Turkish	874
Pashto	806
Latvian	800
Bulgarian	730
Hungarian	710
Telugu	651
Slovak	614
Gaelic (Scottish)	529
Igbo	509
Nepali	501
Farsi	457
Greek	393
German	384
Other / not known or disclosed	7,931

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March 2024

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Region

United Kingdom (Scotland)

Survey time period

2023

Age group

4-18 years

Supplementary notes

Does not include grant aided special schools.

This statistic is using original data from the Scottish Government and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the

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In 2023, there were approximately 17,634 students in Scotland that spoke Polish as their main home language, the most of any non-English language in that year. A further 7,305 students spoke Urdu as their main home language, while the Scots language was spoken by 5,595 pupils.

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