The four leading foreign languages of non-native speakers in British schools are South Asian.
According to the Department for Children, Schools and Families, Punjabi is the top foreign language of non English speaking students. Punjabi was the first language of 102,570 (1.6 per cent) of the students, followed by Urdu with 82,250 (1.3 per cent), Bengali with 70,320 (1.1 per cent) and then Gujarati. |
