Languages spoken by schoolchildren in Wales in 2019/20

[Tooting Carmen]

https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Education-and-Skills/Schools-and-Teachers/Schools-Census/Pupil-Level-Annual-School-Census/Ethnicity-National-Identity-and-Language/firstlanguageofpupilsaged5andover-by-language-year

I have highlighted those which have 1,000 or more speakers.

English and/or Welsh 369,988 (around 27,000 of whom speak Welsh)

Afrikaans 49
Akan 57
Albanian 116
Amharic 68
Arabic 3,484
Armenian 5
Bemba 14
Burmese 11
Bengali 3,019
British Sign Language 28
Basque 6
Bulgarian 370
Catalan 15
Caribbean Creole English 9
Chinese 1,466
Chichewa 12
Czech 578
Danish 13
Dutch 107
Ebira 14
Edo 19
Efik 13
Esan 21
Estonian 12
Fijian 8
Finnish 33
French 372
Fula 16
Gaelic 7
German 158
Greek 156
Gujarati 160
Hausa 21
Hindko 122
Hebrew 27
Hungarian 298
Hindi 227
Igbo 56
Icelandic 6
Italian 340
Japanese 51
Kannada 35
Konkani 10
Korean 62
Krio 10
Kurdish 544
Luganda 21
Lingala 56
Lithuanian 403
Latvian 120
Manding 46
Marathi 21
Malayalam 744
Maltese 13
Malay/Indonesian 50
Ndebele 28
Nepali 124
Norwegian 20
Oriya 6
Oromo 5
Other Language 388
Pashto 366
Pahari (India) 5
Pahari (Pakistan) 19
Panjabi 1,242
Polish 4,961
Portuguese 846
Persian/Farsi 310
Romani (International) 131
Romanian 1,091
Russian 294
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian 39
Shona 117
Slovak 323
Slovenian 5
Sindhi 11
Sinhala 100
Somali 852
Spanish 465
Setswana 6
Swahili 76
Swedish 31
Tamil 434
Telugu 87
Tigre 6
Tagalog 830
Tigrinya 115
Thai 207
Tibetan 6
Berber/Tamazight 5
Turkish 648
Ukrainian 21
Urdu 1,508
Vietnamese 112
Visayan 14
Wolof 33
West African Pidgin English 6
Xhosa 5
Yoruba 118
Zulu 12
Refused 135
Classification Pending 328

[Tenma de Pegasus]

So diverse!

[Tooting Carmen]

So diverse!

Well most of said diversity is found in Cardiff, and to a somewhat lesser extent Swansea, Newport and Wrexham. Mind you, it is possible to find lots of Poles in particular in even the smallest towns and villages.

[Tutankhamun]

https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Education-and-Skills/Schools-and-Teachers/Schools-Census/Pupil-Level-Annual-School-Census/Ethnicity-National-Identity-and-Language/firstlanguageofpupilsaged5andover-by-language-year

I have highlighted those which have 1,000 or more speakers.

English and/or Welsh 369,988 (around 27,000 of whom speak Welsh)

Afrikaans 49


Are there many South Africans in Wales? I thought all South Africans in the UK were in England.

[Tooting Carmen]

Are there many South Africans in Wales? I thought all South Africans in the UK were in England.

I've met a few.