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Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-193069

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Author:: Lauck, William Jett http://d-nb.info/gnd/173237126

Title:: The new industrial revolution and wages

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Funk & Wagnalls

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: ix, 308 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Acceptance and general application of the theory of productive efficiency

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PROPORTION OF IMMIGRANT PEOPLES LEARNING ENGLISH 163 TABLE 98,—PERCENTAGES 10 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER UNABLE TO SPEAK (1) ENGLISH (9 FRENCH OR ENGLISH, BY GEOGRAPHICAL AND LINGUISTIC GROUPS OF NON-BRITISH AND NON-FRENCH ORIGINS, 1921. Origin Vorth Western European— Belglanl, cu. ve cues baviionns <a smemney Danish...... - German........... erento en fcelandic......coovvvniiininnen PRN Norwegian. ...oveere cavnveens Swedish.......... pen Swiss. Total? South, Eastern and Central European— AUSETIAN. ..ovvivererenrnornrennnns oe bE HERS Czechoslovaks......ccoevrmnunn. Finnish..iioienenivernenrnnanees Greek. oooevunier cc ciiiienieens dungarian.........ooeeeiiiininn. SEMA. con crane in pvee ; POUsh. coin vi svn on en Roumanian........... Russian. ..... Ukrainian... . Total Scandinavian— Danish. ...... Icelandic........... Norwegian.... . Swedish. ... Total... Ger manict— Dutch....... German. ... Total...coeenvun..- Latin and Greek— Greek. .ovvivniiinierneinaanns Italian. .......... .. Roumanian..... Total. . Slavic— Austrian. ....... we a Bulgarial......cooereiniencns Czechsolovaks.....coovvininiunin. . POISRr eve nnmrennee eee evra as Ln Raa ririr Pee Serbo-Croatian...... .. Toner Ukrainian... ... Tremere Per cent 10 yrs. and over unable to speak English D.C. 17-1 i4 77 1.9 -9 4 2.3 - BR 36 18-3 6-4 14-8 7-6 10-5 Va.0 i -0 /R.9 18-3 i-4 i9 1-4 2:3 21 7-7 1.9 3-6 7-8 18-0 13-7 17-3 18-3 18-0 6-4 13-8 17-0 8-9 26.9 19:0 Per cent 10 yrs. and aver unable to speak French or English D.C. 4-1 1-4 7-7 1-7 5-9 1-3 2-2 0-6 a.n 18-2 6-2 14-1 6-5 10-4 14-0 13-6 13-4 16-9 26:2 17:5 1-4 5-9 1-3 2-2 2:1 77 1-7 3:4 6-5 12-3 13-4 13-3 18-2 18:0 6:2 13-6 16-9 8-9 28.92 18-9 Norrs:—1 40 p.c. of the Belgians speak French as mother tongue; the figure 17-1 omitted from average. 2 I'lemish omitted as it is impossible to separate them from the total for Belgians. PROPORTIONS OF NON-BRITISH AND NON-FRENCH ORIGINS ACQUIRING ENGLISH Larger percentages of the Dutch and Germans and Swiss and Danes, for instance, spoke English or French as their mother tongue than of the Bulgarians and Finns and Hungarians and Ukrainians. So, while the figures in Table 98 above constitute an index of the amount of linguistic assimilation already having taken place, they indicate nothing definite as to the progress made by those who did not speak English or French in the home. Table 99 gives the numbers and percentages of the principal European stocks, 10 years of age and over, who did not speak English as the mother tongue yet had learned it by June 1, 1921. the date of the census, v4499—11%

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