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Language Information

These figures show language data from 2008-09, 2007-08 and 2006-07.

Statistics 2008-09

The 2008 -09 year represented the first year in which INTRAN was able to collect language statistics from outside of Norfolk. On July 1st 2008 the INTRAN partnership expanded outside Norfolk, into the whole of East Anglia. The following stats take into account this expansion, please remember that for counties other than Norfolk, the statistics only represent use of INTRAN between July 08 and March 09, rather than the full financial year. They also represent use made from existing partners

These statistics have been provided for the entire INTRAN partnership and also broken down by region.

Overall

• Whole Partnership

Cambridgeshire

• Fenland
• Huntingdon
• Peterborough

Norfolk

• Norfolk
• Broadland
• East
• North
• Norwich
• South
• West

Suffolk

• East
• West

PARTNERSHIP TOP LANGUAGES

In the 2008-2009 financial year there were 23090 requests for interpretation or translation in 78 different languages.

1. Portuguese
2. Polish
3. Lithuanian
4. Russian
5. Chinese Mandarin
6. BSL
7. Slovakian
8. Turkish
9. Hungarian
10. Kurdish - Sorani
11. Swahili
12. Arabic
13. French
14. Latvian
15. Bengali
16. Cantonese
17. Pashto
18. Bengali-Sylheti
19. Spanish
20. Czech
21. Vietnamese
22. Romanian
23. Farsi - Iranian
24. Punjabi-Mirpuri
25. Bulgarian
26. Thai
27. Tamil
28. German
29. Albanian
30. Somali
31. Urdu
32. Kurdish - Badini
33. Italian
34. Hindi
35. Tigrinya
36. Hakka
37. Amharic
38. Ukrainian
39. Braille
40. Korean
41. Tagalog
42. Dutch
43. Farsi - Dari
44. Greek
45. Indonesian
46. Sylheti
47. Note Taking
48. Punjabi - India
49. LSP
50. Malay
51. Dari
52. Afrikaans
53. Audio
54. Audio
55. Japanese
56. Kosovan
57. Lingala
58. Nepalese
59. Nyanja
60. Oromo
61. Serbian
62. Armenian
63. Behdini
64. Cambodian
65. Catalan
66. Croatian
67. Easy Read
68. Faroese
69. Finnish
70. French Canadian
71. Gujarati
72. Haitian Creole
73. Large Print/Braille
74. Norwegian
75. Swedish
76. Voice-over
77. Welsh
78. Yoruba

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Fenland

• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Latvian
• Polish
• Portuguese

Huntingdon

• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Russian
• Portuguese
• Punjabi-Mirpuri
• Slovakian
• Kurdish Sorani
• Latvian
• Czech
• Urdu

Peterborough

• Lithuanian

NORFOLK

Norfolk

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Chinese Mandarin
• BSL
• Slovakian
• Hungarian
• Swahili (Congolese)
• Turkish

Broadland

• Turkish
• Portuguese
• Bengali Sylheti
• Polish
• Russian
• Lithuanian
• Chinese Mandarin
• BSL
• French
• Tamil

East

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Lithuanian
• Slovakian
• Russian
• BSL
• Turkish
• Kurdish Sorani
• Chinese Mandarin
• Hungarian

North

• Polish
• Bengali Sylheti
• Braille
• Cantonese
• French
• Portuguese
• Slovakian
• Turkish
• Latvian
• Lithuanian

Norwich

• Polish
• Portuguese
• Chinese Mandarin
• BSL
• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Hungarian
• Turkish
• Cantonese
• Bengali Sylheti

South

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Hungarian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Russian
• BSL
• Italian
• French
• Slovakian

West

• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Slovakian
• Latvian
• Chinese Mandarin
• BSL
• Turkish
• Spanish

SUFFOLK

East

• Portuguese
• Polish
• French
• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Arabic
• Hungarian
• Kurdish Sorani
• Latvian
• Chinese Mandarin

West

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Lithuanian
• Chinese Mandarin
• Russian
• Bengali Sylheti
• Turkish
• Chinese Cantonese
• Urdu
• Slovakian

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Statistics 2007-08

During this year INTRAN was contained within Norfolk and this is represented in the following statistics. From July 1^st 2008 INTRAN is expanding to the whole Eastern Region and figures will be updated at the first available opportunity to reflect this.

 During the 2007-08 financial year there were 18,144 requests for either interpretation or translation in 67 different languages.

• Whole of Norfolk
• Central
• Western
• Eastern
• Northern
• Southern
• Broadland

67 Languages and Dialects out of 108 Languages Spoken in Norfolk 2007-08:

1. Portuguese
2. Polish
3. Russian
4. Lithuanian
5. BSL
6. Chinese Mandarin
7. Turkish
8. Swahili
9. Kurdish - Sorani
10. Cantonese
11. Bengali-Sylheti
12. French
13. Slovak
14. Hungarian
15. Spanish
16. Latvian
17. Arabic
18. Bengali
19. Vietnamese
20. Albanian
21. Urdu
22. Czech
23. Romanian
24. Thai
25. Tigrinya
26. Italian
27. Tamil
28. German
29. Bulgarian
30. Ukrainian
31. Kurdish -Badini
32. Farsi - Dari
33. Punjabi - (P Mirpuri)
34. Afghani (Pashto)
35. Somali
36. Farsi - Iranian
37. Hindi
38. Amharic
39. Mongolian
40. Hakka
41. Algerian
42. Korean
43. Indonesian (Malay)
44. Lugandan
45. Punjabi - India
46. Dutch
47. Greek
48. Lingala
49. Sudanese Arabic
50. Bosnian
51. Filipino
52. Fukienese (Taiwanese)
53. Haitian Creole
54. Khmer (Cambodian)
55. Serbian
56. Tagalog
57. Wolof
58. Croatian
59. Hebrew
60. Japanese
61. Norwegian
62. Nuer
63. Oromo
64. Shanghainese (Wu)
65. Slovene
66. Swedish
67. Twi
     

Central Top 10 Languages 2007-08

• Polish
• Portuguese
• BSL
• Chinese Mandarin
• Swahili
• Turkish
• Russian
• Lithuanian
• Kurdish - Sorani
• French
   

Western Top 10 Languages 2007-08

• Russian
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Chinese Mandarin
• BSL
• Slovak
• Latvian
• Cantonese
• Vietnamese
   

Eastern Top 10 Languages 2007-08

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Kurdish - Sorani
• Chinese Mandarin
• Slovak
• Turkish
• BSL
• Hungarian
   

Northern Top 10 Languages 2007-08

• Polish
• Chinese Mandarin
• Bengali-Sylheti
• Portuguese
• Lithuanian
• Cantonese
• Russian
• Bengali
• BSL
• Latvian
   

Southern Top 10 Languages 2007-08

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Russian
• BSL
• Lithuanian
• Chinese Mandarin
• Turkish
• Spanish
• Italian
• Hungarian
   

Broadland Top 10 Languages 2007-08

• BSL
• Lithuanian
• Russian
• Polish
• Urdu
• Turkish
• Cantonese
• Portuguese
• Bengali-Sylheti
• Chinese Mandarin
   

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Statistics 2006-07

These statistics have been provided for the whole of Norfolk, and also broken down by region:

• Whole of Norfolk
• Central
• Western
• Eastern
• Southern
• Northern
• Broadland
   

INTRAN whole of Norfolk language statistics 2006-07

There were 16,039 interpreting bookings in 2006-07.

1. Portuguese
2. Russian
3. Lithuanian
4. Polish
5. British Sign Language
6. Kurdish - Sorani
7. Turkish
8. Mandarin
9. Sylheti/Bengali
10. Cantonese
11. Hungarian
12. Latvian
13. French
14. Spanish
15. Swahili
16. Arabic
17. Pushtu
18. Vietnamese
19. Slovak
20. Tigrinian
21. Farsi
22. Urdu
23. Czech
24. Thai
25. Albanian
26. Romanian
27. Ukrainian
28. Italian
29. German
30. Punjabi (from India)
31. Tamil
32. Algerian
33. Amharic
34. Greek
35. Lingala
36. Dari
37. Somali
38. Hindi
39. Bulgarian
40. Croatian
41. Gujurati
42. Hakka
43. Malayalam
44. Serbo-Croat
45. Indonesian
46. Japanese
47. Swedish
48. Tagalog
     

2006-07 Central Top Languages

• Portuguese
• British Sign Language
• Polish
• Kurdish-Sorani
• Turkish
• Russian
• Sylheti
• Lithuanian
• Hungarian
   

2006-07 Western Top Languages

• Russian
• Lithuanian
• Portuguese
• Polish
• Latvian
• Cantonese
• British Sign Language
• Slovak
• Mandarin
   

2006-07 Eastern Top Languages

• Portuguese
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Russian
• Kurdish-Sorani
• British Sign Language
• Turkish
• Mandarin
• Thai
  

2006-07 Southern Top Languages

• Portuguese
• Polish
• Russian
• Lithuanian
• British Sign Language
• Turkish
• Hungarian
• Mandarin
• Spanish
• Sylheti

2006-07 Northern Top Languages

• British Sign Language
• Polish
• Sylheti
• Lithuanian
• Hungarian
• Mandarin
• Russian
• French
• Portuguese
• Thai
  

2006-07 Broadland Top Languages

• Portuguese
• Kurdish-Sorani
• Turkish
• French
• Lithuanian
• Cantonese
• Arabic
• Italian
• Polish
• Russian

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