Table 2:
Home Language (L1) Data for Students in the Sample
| Names of Languages | Grade 1 (N=346) | Grade 3 (N=328) | Grade 5 (N=329) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency | Percentage | Frequency | Percentage | Frequency | Percentage | |
| Kannada | 75 | 21.68 | 102 | 31.09 | 84 | 25.53 |
| Hindi | 55 | 15.89 | 62 | 18.90 | 70 | 21.27 |
| Telugu | 48 | 13.87 | 45 | 13.72 | 67 | 20.36 |
| Bengali | 36 | 10.40 | 26 | 7.91 | 0 | 0 |
| Tamil | 32 | 9.25 | 22 | 6.71 | 45 | 13.67 |
| Urdu | 29 | 8.38 | 35 | 10.67 | 15 | 4.56 |
| Malayalam | 25 | 7.23 | 17 | 5.18 | 0 | 0 |
| Gujarati | 25 | 7.23 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.60 |
| Marathi | 21 | 6.07 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6.38 |
| Kodava | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.91 | 10 | 3.04 |
| Konkani | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2.45 | 0 | 0 |
| Tulu | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3.05 | 15 | 4.55 |