By the numbers: Languages spoken by Spokane students

Tue., Nov. 21, 2006

The Spokesman-Review

There are 928 students in Spokane Public Schools who qualify for the district’s English Language Development program.

332

Russian

147

Spanish

92

Marshallese

68

Vietnamese

42

Hmong

30

Bosnian

26

Ukrainian

19

Arabic

17

Moldovan

16

Chuukese (Micronesia)

13

Mandarin

11

Somali

10

Punjabi

9

Turkish

8

Pashto, Serbian

7

Amharic (Ethiopia), Farsi, Korean and Swahili

6

Belarusian

5

Karen (Burmese), Tagalog (Philippines) and Laotian

4

Albanian and Mandarin

3

Creole

2

Cantonese, Romanian and Haitian

1

Anuak (Sudan/Ethiopia), Azerbaijani, Bisaya (Philippines), Burmese, Cebuano (Philippines), Ethiopian, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Kirghiz (Kyrgyzstan), Krahn (Liberia), Rwandan, Tamil (India) and Thai

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