The most spoken foreign languages in Scotland - England and Wales completely different

Speaking languages different than English, Scots and Gaelic was astir communal successful the large cities. (Image: Getty)

The apical 5 astir spoken overseas languages successful Scotland were revealed successful a 2011 census, revealing differences successful the linguistic marque up of UK nations.

Polish was recovered to beryllium the astir commonly spoken connection aft the country's 3 main languages, with astir 54,000 radical saying they spoke the cardinal European connection astatine home.

The fig represented astir 1.1 percent of Scotland's population.

Speaking languages different than English, Scots and Gaelic was astir communal successful the large cities with astir 12 percent of radical successful Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow saying they spoke different languages astatine home.

The apical languages spoken successful England were recovered to beryllium somewhat antithetic (Image: Getty)

The spoken languages astir commonly spoken astatine location different than English and Scots were:

1. Polish (54,186 people)
2. Urdu (23,394 people)
3. Punjabi languages (23,150 people)
4. Chinese languages (16,830 people)
5. French (14,623 people)

Meanwhile, the 2021 census of Language successful England and Wales, which surveyed residents connected the languages they talk astatine home, recovered that Polish was besides the astir commonly utilized among accustomed residents, who bash not person English (English oregon Welsh successful Wales) arsenic a main language, with 612,000 speakers (1.1 percent of the population).

A accustomed nonmigratory is anyone who connected Census Day was successful the UK and had stayed oregon intended to enactment successful the state for a play of 12 months oregon more, oregon had a imperishable UK code and was extracurricular the UK and intended to beryllium extracurricular the UK for little than 12 months, according to the ONS website.

Romanian was the 2nd astir communal with 472,000 (0.8 percent). The connection saw the largest summation successful speakers, up from 68,000 (0.1 percent) successful 2011.

Panjabi came successful 3rd with 291,000 (0.5 percent), intimately followed by Urdu 270,000 (0.5 percent).

The 5th astir commonly spoken connection different than the authoritative languages was Portuguese, 225,000 (0.4 percent). The fig of speakers was up from 133,000 successful 2011.

91.1 percent of accustomed residents (52.6 million) aged 3 years and implicit were recovered to person English (English oregon Welsh successful Wales) arsenic a main connection successful the 2021 count. This was somewhat down from the 92.3 percent, oregon 49.8 million, seen 10 years earlier.