There are over 355 Language Minority students at Portland High School. The languages spoken by our students include the following listed below: Acholi (Sudan) Albanian Amharic (Ethiopia) Arabic (some Sudanese) Bangladeshi Bulgarian Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin) Dari (Afghanistan) Dinha (Sudan) Farsi (Iran, Afghanistan) French German Khmer (Cambodia) Luganda (Kenya) Nuer (Sudan) Pashto (Afghanistan) Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Punjab (India) Romanian Serbo-Croatian (Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia Serbia) Somali (Somalia) Spanish (Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Costa Rica) Thai Tigrinian (Ethiopia) Uganda/Swahili (Sudan) Vietnamese Other countries that teachers or language facilitators are from include Afghanistan, China, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Somali, Vietnam and Yugoslavia