Native Language of First-time Freshmen, Fall 2001
Table 23
Language n %
English 802 50.5
Albanian 16 1.0
Arabic 19 1.2
Armenian 3 0.2
Azerbaijani 1 0.1
Bengali 21 1.3
Bulgarian 3 0.2
Burmese 4 0.3
Cantonese 31 2.0
Cebuano 1 0.1
Chinese 73 4.6
Dutch-Flemish 1 0.1
Farsi 4 0.3
French 11 0.7
German 1 0.1
Greek 15 0.9
Gujarati 3 0.2
Hebrew 20 1.3
Hindi 7 0.4
Hungarian 2 0.1
Igbo 2 0.1
Ilocano 1 0.1
Indonesian 2 0.1
Italian 4 0.3
Japanese 7 0.4
Kannada 1 0.1
Korean 29 1.8
Lao 1 0.1
Malayalam 4 0.3
Mandarin 10 0.6
Marathi 1 0.1
Norwegian 1 0.1
Nyanja 1 0.1
Persian 4 0.3
Polish 31 2.0
Portuguese 2 0.1
Punjabi 4 0.3
Romanian 12 0.8
Russian 128 8.1
Serbo-Croatian 6 0.4
Slovak 3 0.2
Spanish 200 12.6
Swedish 1 0.1
Tagalog 21 1.3
Tamil 1 0.1
Thai 9 0.6
Tibetan 3 0.2
Turkish 5 0.3
Twi-Fante 1 0.1
Ukrainian 5 0.3
Urdu 10 0.6
Vietnamese 6 0.4
Wolof 1 0.1
Yoruba 4 0.3
Creole 14 0.9
Pilipino 9 0.6
Cambodian 1 0.1
Other 5 0.3
Missing  358 --
Total 1946 100.0