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. 2016 Mar 3;6(3):e010042. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010042

Table 2.

Languages spoken most often at home by South Asian Respondents (N=312)

Language n Percentage of non-EPL Respondents % of all South Asian Responses Language n Percentage of non-EPL Respondents  Percentage of all South Asian Responses
Total English Speaking South Asians 139 44.6
Total Non-English Speaking South Asians 173 100 55.4
Total South Asian Respondents 312 100
Arabic 1 0.6 0.3 Kyrgyz 1 0.6 0.3
Bengali 44 25.4 14.1 Malayalam 3 1.7 1.0
Farsi 8 4.6 2.6 Pashto 3 1.7 1.0
Filipino 2 1.2 0.6 Portuguese 1 0.6 0.3
French 1 0.6 0.3 Punjabi 47 27.2 15.1
German 1 0.6 0.3 Sinhalese 3 1.7 1.0
Gujarati 16 9.2 5.1 Sylheti 1 0.6 0.3
Hindi 4 2.3 1.3 Tagalog 1 0.6 0.3
Indian 2 1.2 0.6 Tamil 2 1.2 0.6
Kannada 1 0.6 0.3 Urdu 25 14.4 8.0
Kurdish 5 2.9 1.6 Vietnamese 1 0.6 0.3

EPL, English as Primary Language Spoken at Home.