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Rank/Language Name Kdgn. Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Ungr. Total % of Total
1 Spanish 150,707 147,033 140,600 136,754 127,492 107,252 98,141 87,323 78,346 89,308 69,225 51,761 39,067 18,360 1,341,369 85.4
2 Vietnamese 5,605 4,884 4,000 3,477 2,974 2,315 1,937 1,690 1,467 1,503 1,425 1,440 1,462 84 34,263 2.2
3 Cantonese 3,165 2,770 2,691 2,411 2,024 1,534 1,286 1,035 1,041 1,240 1,165 1,156 1,164 74 22,756 1.4
4 Hmong 1,834 1,808 1,820 1,962 1,950 1,898 1,796 1,795 1,536 1,788 1,505 1,233 971 11 21,907 1.4
5 Filipino (Pilipino or Tag 2,247 2,350 2,403 2,135 1,986 1,556 1,293 1,234 1,073 1,148 1,144 1,039 773 175 20,556 1.3
6 Korean 1,883 1,826 1,824 1,574 1,365 1,161 944 962 939 1,097 973 775 673 95 16,091 1.0
7 Mandarin (Putonghua) 1,819 1,599 1,383 1,043 760 579 506 595 620 836 955 930 815 12 12,452 0.8
8  All other non-English la 1,803 1,561 1,304 1,193 967 696 597 514 511 660 542 535 426 59 11,368 0.7
9 Punjabi 1,166 1,088 1,074 796 780 549 517 530 485 581 569 554 432 17 9,138 0.6
10 Armenian 819 900 924 847 800 668 585 502 532 639 454 441 370 174 8,655 0.6
11 Khmer (Cambodian) 764 747 753 701 688 617 554 623 592 716 616 540 538 20 8,469 0.5
12 Arabic 1,044 981 909 818 732 504 489 420 375 471 411 373 306 43 7,876 0.5
13 Russian 872 971 873 712 608 526 487 476 428 461 434 375 280 44 7,547 0.5
14 Farsi (Persian) 704 628 614 530 448 335 324 289 282 311 308 306 286 77 5,442 0.3
15 Japanese 735 727 698 489 427 353 270 206 185 158 146 148 123 8 4,673 0.3
16 Hindi 520 489 443 359 293 226 238 223 214 225 191 222 200 16 3,859 0.2
17 Lao 370 337 331 383 342 273 262 277 240 273 230 206 182 4 3,710 0.2
18 Urdu 363 357 332 249 219 160 156 131 122 144 109 101 99 16 2,558 0.2
19 Ukrainian 301 266 271 250 215 172 173 163 156 168 122 130 76 1 2,464 0.2
20 Mien (Yao) 176 170 190 163 179 165 157 154 156 181 148 134 127 1 2,101 0.1
21 Portuguese 236 219 212 190 176 139 131 123 100 144 132 121 90 7 2,020 0.1
22 Tongan 154 167 175 153 159 147 139 127 97 107 97 77 71 2 1,672 0.1
23 Samoan 111 150 138 144 145 105 107 112 104 119 96 71 72 5 1,479 0.1
24 Thai 126 117 119 131 109 128 82 97 84 135 85 119 78 20 1,430 0.1
25 Ilocano 77 95 124 106 79 84 101 99 71 104 89 78 96 5 1,208 0.1
26 Gujarati 186 184 163 106 75 54 45 48 46 51 56 57 48 4 1,123 0.1
27 Indonesian 141 123 134 106 96 62 59 50 47 58 55 62 54 2 1,049 0.1
28 French 143 126 125 103 84 61 44 54 52 72 60 52 37 9 1,022 0.1
29 Rumanian 126 100 130 107 80 69 49 73 69 64 46 54 49 3 1,019 0.1
30 Somali 104 108 102 110 98 78 62 70 56 72 61 45 31 2 999 0.1
31 Hebrew 122 113 108 121 80 75 68 58 49 40 43 31 24 25 957 0.1
32 Pashto 125 95 81 70 63 55 49 67 32 46 40 34 37 2 796 0.1
33 Mixteco 90 77 91 70 73 58 54 75 57 43 20 20 15 0 743 0.0
34 German 92 79 72 75 49 37 35 30 23 20 23 66 39 3 643 0.0
35 Assyrian 59 56 59 67 50 38 43 40 36 32 43 44 26 2 595 0.0
36 Chaozhou (Chiuchow) 86 94 63 64 59 46 30 25 15 29 20 14 21 2 568 0.0
37 Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, 66 66 72 78 55 40 28 25 32 30 24 27 18 1 562 0.0
38 Chaldean 58 57 63 47 45 41 35 23 21 35 40 36 40 0 541 0.0
39 Bengali 102 71 69 54 41 20 24 13 15 19 14 14 9 9 474 0.0
40 Burmese 50 55 55 50 34 19 24 18 12 33 33 32 40 1 456 0.0
41 Cebuano (Visayan) 45 46 62 53 34 28 31 24 26 18 27 26 25 0 445 0.0
42 Tigrinya 49 47 44 50 30 28 27 30 22 23 28 21 15 0 414 0.0
43 Turkish 40 45 38 35 18 17 22 18 13 22 15 15 19 1 318 0.0
44 Kurdish (Kurdi, Kurmanji) 34 29 34 29 36 16 26 23 8 20 21 24 16 0 316 0.0
45 Italian 33 41 43 30 35 18 26 9 13 9 9 12 26 1 305 0.0
46 Lahu 36 23 29 21 25 21 20 25 20 24 21 20 14 0 299 0.0
47 Polish 53 31 36 28 21 18 8 18 13 18 21 10 13 2 290 0.0
48 Taiwanese 32 25 25 13 24 17 14 15 26 26 24 18 16 2 277 0.0
49 Toishanese 21 18 4 29 33 35 12 11 6 11 1 9 10 2 202 0.0
50 Dutch 28 32 21 18 21 17 9 8 13 10 6 0 2 0 185 0.0
51 Hungarian 24 34 17 17 15 18 11 7 2 9 7 9 9 0 179 0.0
52 Greek 23 23 25 20 13 7 7 6 9 10 5 6 7 1 162 0.0
53 Marshallese 18 14 21 8 10 8 6 6 16 2 5 14 2 2 132 0.0
54 Khmu 14 12 6 8 10 10 4 17 9 15 10 6 6 0 127 0.0
55 Albanian 18 14 11 10 14 9 10 11 4 7 5 1 5 0 119 0.0
56 Chamorro (Guamanian) 3 3 7 5 3 2 2 2 2 5 2 4 3 1 44 0.0
EL Totals 179,622 174,081 166,015 159,172 147,241 123,164 112,156 100,599 90,520 103,390 81,956 63,648 49,453 19,407 1,570,424 100.0
% of Total 11.4 11.1 10.6 10.1 9.4 7.8 7.1 6.4 5.8 6.6 5.2 4.1 3.1 1.2 100.0