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%
