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Top 10 Native Languages Among Fall 2019 Lehman College Undergraduates, Excluding English:
[Data provided by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Data Analytics, Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY. October 8, 2020. Request from the Leonard Lief Library.]
Native Language history links from https://www.britannica.com/topic and https://www.britannica.com/
| RANK | NATIVE LANGUAGE | COUNT | PERCENT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SPANISH | 1,907 | 68% |
| 2 | BENGALI | 111 | 4% |
| 3 | FRENCH | 82 | 3% |
| 4 | TWI-FANTE | 63 | 2% |
| 5 | ALBANIAN | 56 | 2% |
| 6 | AKAN | 44 | 2% |
| 7 | ARABIC | 43 | 2% |
| 8 | URDU | 38 | 1% |
| 9 | CREOLE | 34 | 1% |
| 10 | TAGALOG | 30 |
1% |