About 78 percent of Anchorage students live in a home where English is regularly spoken. Among the rest, there are 101 languages.
Here's a breakdown of the number of students who have a language other than English spoken at home, based on data from the Anchorage School District.
[The latest language immersion program for Anchorage students: Yup'ik]
(The languages with an asterisk indicate there are five or fewer students).
Spanish —1,644
Hmong — 1,362
Samoan — 955
Filipino — 942
Korean — 193
Nuer — 154
Yup'ik — 148
Lao — 135
Somali — 115
Russian — 94
Arabic — 73
Albanian — 66
Tongan — 65
Chinese — 50
Vietnamese — 50
Thai — 47
Japanese — 41
Inupiaq — 33
Nepali — 31
Mien — 30
German — 25
French — 20
Urdu — 19
Khmer Cambodian — 16
Polish — 15
Triqui — 15
Palau — 14
Wolof — 14
Bengali — 12
Dinka — 12
Mandarin — 10
Cambodian — 9
Kinyarwanda — 9
Mandinka — 9
Portuguese — 9
Trukese —9
Turkish — 9
Ukrainian — 9
Amharic — 8
Hindi — 8
Kosraean — 8
Punjabi — 8
Cup'ik — 7
Kiswahili — 7
Bulgarian — 6
Romanian —6
Afrikaans — *
Aleut — *
Armenian — *
Athabascan — *
Bosnian — *
Burmese — *
Cantonese — *
Chamorro Guam — *
Cherokee — *
Chichewa — *
Creole — *
Czech — *
Danish — *
Dena'ina — *
Dutch — *
Fijian — *
Finnish — *
Georgian — *
Greek — *
Hawaiian — *
Hebrew — *
Hungarian — *
Ibo — *
Icelandic —*
Indonesian — *
Italian — *
Kachin — *
Lithuanian — *
Macedonian — *
Malayalam — *
Mano — *
Marathi — *
Marshallese — *
Mbu — *
Mongolian — *
Navajo — *
Norwegian — *
Owan — *
Pashto — *
Patois — *
Persian — *
Pidgin — *
Pohnpeian — *
Serbo Croatian — *
Siberian Yupik — *
Sinhalese — *
Slovak — *
Swedish — *
Tamil — *
Telugu — *
Tibetan — *
Tlingit — *
Twi — *
Yapese — *
Zuni — *