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NATIVE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY CHILDREN IN MAINE SCHOOLS, 1998-99
NON-PUB Schools By Language
Language Pre-K Kind Gr-1 Gr-2 Gr-3 Gr-4 Gr-5 Gr-6 Gr-7 Gr-8 Gr-9 Gr-10 Gr-11 Gr-12 Ungr Total
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AM SIGN LANGUAG 1 1
ARABIC 1 1
BOSNIAN 1 1
BULGARIAN 1 1
CHINESE 1 2 1 1 10 6 2 23
CROATIAN 1 1
ESTONIAN 1 1
FARSI 2 2
FRENCH 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 4 4 23
GERMAN 16 5 21
GREEK 1 3 4
HAWAIIAN 1 1
HUNGARIAN 1 1 2
JAPANESE 2 11 13 18 44
KOREAN 1 13 15 17 46
KURDISH 1 1
LITHUANIAN 1 1
NON-SPECIFIED 2 1 1 1 2 2
PAKISTANI 1 1 2
PASHTU 1 1
PASSAMAQUODDY 2 2
PHILIPINO 1 1
POLISH 1 1 1 1 1 5
PORTUGUESE 1 1 1 2 5
RUSSIAN 2 1 3 6 12
SERBO-CROATIAN 1 1 2
SLOVAK 1 1 2
SOMALI 1 1
SPANISH 2 3 6 9 20
SWEDISH 1 1 2
TAIWANESE 1 1
THAI 1 1
TIBETAN 1 1
TURKISH 1 1 2
VIETNAMESE 1 1 1 3
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Total All Languages** 3 10 4 4 4 1 5 4 4 3 13 49 72 69 1 237
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NATIVE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY CHILDREN IN MAINE SCHOOLS, 1998-99
TOTAL Schools By Language
Language Pre-K Kind Gr-1 Gr-2 Gr-3 Gr-4 Gr-5 Gr-6 Gr-7 Gr-8 Gr-9 Gr-10 Gr-11 Gr-12 Ungr Total
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AFRIKANS 1 1
AKRAN 1 1
ALBANIAN 1 2 1 2 6
AM SIGN LANGUAG 11 8 6 6 7 6 2 6 8 2 7 8 9 4 90
AMHARIC 1 1 1 1 2 1 5 12
ARABIC 2 4 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 15
BOSNIAN 1 1 2
BULGARIAN 1 2 1 1 1 1 7
BURMESE 1 1 1 1 4
CHINESE 6 27 23 13 17 14 12 9 7 6 9 17 13 10 183
CONGO 1 1
CREOLE 1 1 2
CROATIAN 1 1
CZECH 1 1 1 3
DANISH 1 1 4 1 7
DUTCH 1 1 1 1 1 5
ESTONIAN 1 1
FARSI 1 5 3 2 2 2 5 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 31
FIJIAN 1 1
FINNISH 1 1 1 3
FRENCH 19 31 21 15 27 32 33 31 39 30 44 33 39 55 448
GERMAN 1 5 2 3 2 1 1 1 18 10 43
GREEK 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 3 14
GUJARATI 1 1
GUYANESE ENGLIS 1 1 2
HAHIAUHOLE 1 1
HAWAIIAN 1 1
HINDU 2 2 3 1 2 10
HUNGARIAN 1 1 1 1 4
ICELANDIC 1 1
ITALIAN 3 1 2 6
JAPANESE 2 2 3 1 3 3 3 2 13 13 21 66
KHMER 17 39 41 33 30 21 16 17 37 20 14 20 15 13 334
KOREAN 2 5 4 3 1 1 3 1 2 13 17 18 70
KURDISH 1 1 2
LAO 1 1 1 1 2 1 7
LATVIAN 1 1
LEBANESE 1 1 2
LITHUANIAN 1 1 2
MANDINKA 1 1 1 1 4
MARATHI 1 1
MARTIALESE 2 2
MIC MAC 1 1 1 3
MONGOLIAN 1 1
NEPALESE 1 1
NON-SPECIFIED 5 11 6 7 12 10 10 4 6 7 6 17 11 11 114
NORWEGIAN 2 2
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NATIVE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY CHILDREN IN MAINE SCHOOLS, 1998-99
TOTAL Schools By Language
Language Pre-K Kind Gr-1 Gr-2 Gr-3 Gr-4 Gr-5 Gr-6 Gr-7 Gr-8 Gr-9 Gr-10 Gr-11 Gr-12 Ungr Total
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NUER 1 1 1 1 4
PAKISTANI 1 1 1 3
PASHTU 1 1 1 1 4
PASSAMAQUODDY 17 31 30 32 24 22 29 36 29 11 2 279
PHILIPINO 1 1 1 1 1 5
POLISH 2 8 5 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 4 2 31
PORTUGUESE 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 4 21
ROMANIAN 1 1 1 1 3 1 8
RUMANIAN 1 1
RUSSIAN 1 6 12 10 11 6 8 12 12 6 14 9 10 13 128
RWANDAN 1 1
SAMOAN 1 1
SERBIAN 1 1
SERBO-CROATIAN 7 8 5 7 6 4 1 5 4 8 5 4 2 1 67
SLOVAK 1 1 1 3
SLOVENIC 1 1
SOMALI 2 8 8 11 14 13 14 12 14 10 15 15 11 5 14 152
SPANISH 25 31 30 30 24 19 23 24 20 19 17 12 13 23 309
SWAHILI 1 1 2
SWEDISH 1 1 1 3
TAGALOG 3 5 2 3 1 6 3 2 2 3 29
TAIWANESE 1 1 1 3
TAMIL 1 1
THAI 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 13
TIBETAN 1 1
TIGRINIAN 1 1 1 3 2 1 9
TURKISH 1 1 2
TWI (GHANA) 1 1
UKRAINIAN 3 1 2 4 1 1 3 1 16
URDU 1 2 1 2 6
VIETNAMESE 2 19 22 17 6 9 7 4 10 12 3 7 8 5 131
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Total All Languages** 112 258 253 218 213 181 180 175 211 161 158 194 208 226 19 2755