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Top Festival Languages for 1996: Ranking and number of people who attended the minicourses.

1. African Drum Communication 304
   
2. French Sign Language 267
   
3. Arabic (Classical) 135
   
4. Italian 135
   
5. Japonese 122
   
6. Breton 73
   
7. Esperanto 67
   
8. Spanish (Flamenco Dance) 65
   
9. Arabic (Moroccan) 58
   
10. Catalan 50
    
11. Irish 50
    
12. Basque 46
    
13. Russian 45
    
14. Hebrew 44
    
15. Chinese (Mandarin) 42
    
16. Chinese (Cantonese) 41
    
17. German 35
    
18. Bosnian 34
    
19. Creole (Guyanan) 31
    
20. Portuguese 31
    
21. Creole (Reunion) 30
    
22. Spanish 30
    
23. Persian 29
    
24. Turkish 29
    
25. Lingala (Songs) 27
    
26. Peul 27
    
27. Armenian 26
    
28. Creole (Antillean) 26
    
29. Polish 26
    
30. Vietnamese 25
    
31. Wolof 25
    
32. English 24
    
33. Guarani 24
    
34. Greek, Ancient 23
    
35. Mina 23
    
36. Greek, Modern 21
    
37. Hungarian 21
    
38. Islandic 20
    
39. Dutch 19
    
40. Boulou 18
    
41. "Ecriture Carolingienne" 18
    
42. Lingala 15
    
43. Cambodian 13
    
44. Fon 13
    
45. Slovene 13
    
46. Czech 11
    
47. Albanian 9
    
48. Croate 8
    
49. Estonian 8
    
50. Kurdish 8
    
51. Occitan 8
    
52. Ukrainian 8
    
53. Munukutuba 7
    
54. Braille (French) 5
    
55. Cuneiform 5
    
56. Ewe 5
    
57. Hassaniya 5
    
58. Lithuanian 5
    
59. Phoenecien 4
    
60. Creole (Martinique) 3
    
61. Dioula 3
    
62. Finnish 3
    
63. Somalian 3
    
64. Bambaric 2
    
65. Uncial (Writing) 2
    
66. Slovak 2
    
67. Soninke 2
    
68. Teke1
    
69. Haussa 1
    
70. Danish 0
    
71. Dari 0
    
72. Latin 0
    
73. Pashto 0
    
74. Swahili 0