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Punjabi most commonly spoken language in UK schools after English | Punjabi is the most commonly spoken language among one million children
who do not speak English as a first language in the UK , official figures have
revealed. According to figures released, which were part of an official census
of schools taken in January, other widely spoken languages are Urdu, Bengali,
Gujarati, Somali, Polish, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish and Tamil. According to
The Daily Mail, the figures revealed that record one in six pupils at primary
schools and one in eight at secondary do not speak English at home. A separate
analysis released earlier this year showed how children who speak English as their
first language are now a minority in more than 1,600 English schools. The cost
of educating a child with English as an additional language has been estimated
to be about 30,000 pounds a year, against around 5,000 pounds-a-year for other
pupils. There are also sizable proportions of pupils who speak Shqip from Albania
and Kosovo, Igbo from parts of Nigeria , Luganda from Uganda , Sinhala from Sri
Lanka and Amharic from Ethiopia . A Department for Education spokesman said: 'English
language skills are vitally important to ensure all individuals and communities
can fully integrate into society. "We provide schools with funding and teaching
materials to help them support children with English as an additional language
right through to secondary education," the spokesman said.
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