MIGRATION STREAM BY LANGUAGE This table covers the Settlement Date(a) range from 1 May 2009 to 04 May 2014.

(a) Settlement Date is 'date of visa grant ' for settlers who were in Australia when their visa was granted, and 'date of arrival in Australia ' for settlers who were overseas when their visa was granted.

Migration Stream Humanitarian Skilled Other/Unknown Grand Total Mon 7 26 0 0 33 Acehnese 9 24 0 0 33 Acholi 18 98 * 0 117 Afghan 22 62 0 0 84 African Languages, nec 153 250 9 0 412 African Languages, nfd 46 778 6 0 830 Afrikaans 51 11 1,101 0 1,163 Akan 40 * 23 0 66 Albanian 505 38 32 * 577 American Languages * * 0 0 * Amharic 722 839 28 * 1,592 Anuak * 11 0 0 12 8,160 13,921 452 15 22,548 Arabic, Sudanese Creole 0 7 0 0 7 Arakanese 0 19 0 0 19 Armenian 112 69 13 0 194 Aromunian (Macedo-Romanian) 0 * 0 0 * Asante * 0 0 0 * Assamese * 0 38 0 41 Assyrian 448 2,228 * 0 2,681 Auslan * 0 0 0 * Azeri 14 9 12 0 35 Balinese 24 0 0 0 24 Balochi 8 11 0 0 19 Bari 13 36 0 0 49 Basque * 0 0 0 * Bassa 13 17 0 0 30 Belorussian 11 * * 0 14 Bemba * 78 29 * 112 Bembe 0 26 0 0 26 Bengali 1,906 123 1,854 10 3,893 Bikol * 0 0 0 * Bisaya/Visaya 317 0 33 0 350 Bislama 12 0 * 0 14 Bosnian 295 0 16 0 311 Bulgarian 127 0 55 0 182 Burmese / 457 1,715 72 * 2,246 Burmese and Related Languages, nec * 92 0 0 95 Burmese and Related Languages, nfd 43 457 * 0 505 Cantonese 4,078 50 2,401 * 6,534 Catalan 13 0 9 0 22 Cebuano 222 0 61 0 283 Chaldaean 34 515 0 0 549 Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 30 511 0 0 541 Chin 138 1,242 96 0 1,476 Chin Daai 0 15 0 0 15 Chin Falam * 283 0 0 284 Chin Haka 22 1,119 0 0 1,141 Chin Khumi 0 * 0 0 * Chin Mara * 89 * 0 94 Chin Mro * * * 0 * Chin Mun * * 0 0 * Chin Ngawn 0 6 0 0 6 Chin Senthang * 34 0 0 35 Chin Teddim * 331 0 0 333 Chin Thado 0 8 0 0 8 Chin Zome * 78 0 0 79 Chin Zotong * 52 0 0 53 Chinese, nec 1,361 45 3,169 * 4,576 Chinese, nfd 7,855 144 5,841 * 13,843 Comorian 9 * 0 0 10 Croatian 217 0 37 0 254 Czech 142 * 106 0 249 Dagbani 21 * * 0 28 Danish 75 0 36 0 111 Dari 1,870 6,353 15 * 8,240 Dhivehi 8 0 23 0 31 Dinka 378 341 0 0 719 Dutch 309 * 395 0 705 Dzonkha * 8 10 0 19 EASTERN ASIAN LANGUAGES * * 0 0 * EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES * 0 0 0 * Eastern Kayah 0 94 0 0 94 English 70,392 2,330 148,859 * 221,583 Estonian 24 0 42 0 66 Ewe 24 130 7 0 161 Faeroese 0 0 * 0 * Farsi (Afghan) 218 1,740 30 0 1,988 Farsi (Persian) 1,148 3,975 608 * 5,733 Fijian 137 139 60 0 336 Filipino 1,257 * 1,609 0 2,867 Finnish 79 0 59 0 138 Flemish 10 0 26 0 36 Fon 0 * 0 0 * French 892 554 1,389 0 2,835 Frisian 0 * 0 0 * Fuliiru 0 18 0 0 18 Fullah 24 10 * 0 37 Ga 14 * 7 0 22 Georgian 9 7 * 0 20 German 1,133 * 997 0 2,133 German and Related Languages, nfd 12 0 * 0 13 Gilbertese * 0 * 0 6 Gio * 52 0 0 57 Grebo 0 17 0 0 17 Greek 513 * 94 0 608 Gujarati 1,022 8 2,666 * 3,698 Hadiyigna 0 0 * 0 * Haka * 31 0 0 33 Hakka 24 40 9 0 73 Harari 16 * 0 0 19 Hausa 14 * * 0 19 Hazaragi 338 6,497 * 0 6,837 Hebrew 128 * 160 0 291 2,992 103 5,977 0 9,072 Hmong 35 200 * 0 236 Hmong-Mien, nfd * * 0 0 * Hokkien 20 0 37 0 57 Hungarian 222 * 251 0 475 Iban 7 0 * 0 9 Iberian Romance nec (includes Crioulo Galician 0 * 0 0 * Icelandic 7 0 * 0 8 Igbo 37 8 52 0 97 Ilokano 14 0 9 0 23 Ilonggo (Hiligaynon) 47 0 0 0 47 Inadequately dscrbd 114 * 37 0 155 Indian 231 10 445 0 686 Indo-Aryan, nec * 0 * 0 * Indo-Aryan, nfd 73 0 98 0 171 Indonesian 3,730 143 928 8 4,809 Iranic, nec * * 25 0 31 Iranic, nfd 24 68 15 0 107 Irish * 0 7 0 8 Italian 533 * 545 * 1,082 Japanese 2,671 * 681 0 3,354 Javanese 18 0 * 0 19 Kachin * 159 0 0 163 Kakwa * 14 0 0 16 Kannada 155 0 604 0 759 Karen 27 1,959 * 0 1,987 Karen Brek 0 * 0 0 * Karen Bwe 0 * 0 0 * Karen Geko 0 * 0 0 * Karen Manumanaw 0 * 0 0 * Karen Paku 0 17 0 0 17 Karen Pwo 0 113 0 0 113 Karen S'gaw * 1,252 0 0 1,256 Karen Yinbaw 0 * 0 0 * Kashmiri * * 12 0 15 Kazakh * 0 9 0 13 Khmer 2,419 21 102 0 2,542 Kikuyu * 7 7 0 18 Kinyarwanda / Rwanda 28 418 0 0 446 Kirundi / Nyarwandwa / Rundi 57 384 0 0 441 Kissi * 23 0 0 27 Konkani 15 0 74 0 89 Kono (Sierra Leone) * 14 0 0 16 Korean 2,761 56 4,414 9 7,240 Kpelle 0 14 * 0 15 Krahn * 53 * 0 57 Kreole / Creole (African) 32 75 * 0 110 Krio 51 179 * 0 231 Kru * 7 0 0 9 Kuku 6 35 0 0 41 Kuranko * 0 0 0 * Kurdish 191 706 11 * 909 Kurdish (Sorani) 10 10 0 0 20 Kurdish, Southern (Feyli) * 125 0 0 126 Lango 0 0 * 0 * Lao 271 9 15 0 295 Latin 6 0 0 0 6 Latvian 36 * 12 0 49 Liberian English * 9 0 0 10 Limba * 0 0 0 * Lingala * 152 0 0 153 Lisu 0 11 0 0 11 Lithuanian 36 0 30 0 66 Loma / Lorma * 12 0 0 14 Luba-Kasai 0 0 * 0 * Luganda / Ganda 14 17 * 0 35 Luo 13 0 * 0 17 Macedonian 940 0 60 0 1,000 Madi 29 71 * 0 101 Malay 135 27 435 0 597 Malayalam 321 11 3,315 0 3,647 Maltese 25 0 12 0 37 Mandarin 22,146 1,291 21,078 26 44,541 Mandingo 20 55 * 0 78 Mano 6 20 * 0 27 Marathi 194 * 796 0 991 Mauritian Creole 17 0 22 0 39 Mende 8 74 * 0 83 Middle Eastern Semitic Languages, nfd * 0 * 0 * Mina 0 * 0 0 * Mongolian 77 24 18 0 119 Mon-Khmer, nec * * 0 0 8 Mon-Khmer, nfd * 0 0 0 * Moro 6 12 0 0 18 Motu 7 * 0 0 9 Nauruan * 0 * 0 * Ndebele * 9 45 0 58 Nepali 470 4,308 3,206 * 7,988 Niue 0 * * 0 * Non-verbal so dscrbd 13 187 0 * 201 Norwegian 57 0 40 0 97 Not stated 185,350 707 458,647 74 644,780 Nuer 38 49 0 0 87 Nyanja (Chichewa) * 6 * 0 12 Oceanian Pidgins and Creoles, nec 10 * * 0 13 Oceanian Pidgins and Creoles, nfd 34 16 12 0 62 Oriya 10 0 93 0 103 Oromo 174 676 0 0 850 Other Eastern Asian Languages, nec 9 0 * 0 11 Other Eastern European Languages, nec * 0 0 0 * Other Eastern European Languages, nfd * 0 0 0 * OTHER LANGUAGES 122 83 136 0 341 Other Southeast Asian Languages, nec 12 * * 0 14 Other Southern Asian Languages, nec 6 * * 0 9 Other Southern European Languages nec * 0 0 0 * Other Southern European Languages, nfd * 0 0 0 * Other Southwest and Central Asian Languages, n * 0 * 0 * Pacific Austronesian Languages, nec * 0 0 0 * Pacific Austronesian Languages, nfd * 0 0 0 * Pakistani 32 25 40 0 97 Pampangan 9 0 * 0 13 Panjsheri * 0 0 0 * Papua New Guinea Papuan Languages, nec 11 37 * 0 51 Papuan * 7 0 0 9 Parsun * * 0 0 * Pashto 167 1,031 91 0 1,289 Persian 566 2,124 291 0 2,981 Persian (excluding Dari) 0 58 0 0 58 Polish 613 * 347 0 961 Portuguese 909 * 1,113 * 2,028 Pular / Fuuta Jalon * 0 0 0 * Punjabi 1,749 113 4,258 0 6,120 Rohinga 6 573 0 0 579 Romanian 397 9 216 0 622 Romany * 0 0 0 * Rotuman * 0 18 0 20 Russian 3,084 44 1,284 * 4,416 Samoan 43 * 11 0 55 Sasak * 0 0 0 * Serbian 987 * 125 0 1,115 Serbo-Croatian/Yugoslavian so described 15 * * 0 17 Seychelles Creole 6 0 * 0 8 Shan * 12 0 0 15 Shilluk * 0 0 0 * Shona 21 171 423 0 615 Sign Languages, nec * * 0 0 8 Sign Languages, nfd * 0 0 0 * Sindhi 23 12 68 0 103 Sinhalese 1,043 111 2,529 0 3,683 Slovak 103 0 83 0 186 Slovene 22 0 60 0 82 Solomon Islands Pijin 8 * 0 0 9 Somali 530 1,574 * 0 2,107 Southeast Asian Austronesian Languages * 0 0 0 * SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES * 0 0 0 * SOUTHERN ASIAN LANGUAGES * 0 0 0 * SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES * * 0 0 * SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ASIAN LANGUAGES * 0 0 0 * Spanish 2,942 153 1,978 6 5,079 Sri Lankan 76 21 202 0 299 Susu * * 0 0 9 Swahili 172 1,902 89 0 2,163 Swedish 202 0 112 0 314 Szi 0 0 * 0 * Tagalog 3,161 22 579 * 3,765 Tai, nec * 0 * 0 * Tai, nfd 79 * * 0 85 Tamil 1,326 2,333 1,917 0 5,576 Tatar * 0 * 0 * Telugu 706 * 1,998 0 2,705 Temne / Themne 6 37 * 0 44 Teochew * 0 * 0 6 Tetum 33 9 * * 48 Thai 6,710 33 369 * 7,114 Tibetan 52 250 8 0 310 Tigre 22 110 0 0 132 Tigrinya 267 930 * * 1,199 Timorese 9 38 * 0 49 Tok Pisin * 8 8 0 21 Tongan 159 10 16 * 186 Tswana * 0 28 0 29 Tulu * 0 40 0 44 Turkic, nfd 7 * 0 0 9 Turkish 1,558 295 252 * 2,107 Turkmen * * 0 0 8 Tuvaluan 0 0 * 0 * Twi (Akan) 16 * * 0 20 Ukrainian 243 * 92 0 339 Unspec.fmr.Yugoslav * 0 * 0 * 1,134 1,060 1,778 * 3,974 Uygur / Uyghur 79 204 * 0 284 Uzbek 37 58 19 0 114 Vai * * 0 0 * Vietnamese 11,909 71 1,658 * 13,643 Welsh 0 0 * 0 * Wolof * * 0 0 * Wu 0 0 * 0 * Xhosa 0 * 6 0 7 Yiddish * 0 0 0 * Yoruba 16 15 76 0 107 Zande * 0 0 0 * Zophei 0 138 0 0 138 Zulu * * 22 0 27 (blank) * 14 22 0 39 Grand Total 376,358 75,565 697,256 205 1,149,387