Russian Germans

[Robert A. Rothstein]

KatarinaPeitlova wrote:

>This "duality" did exist even in ancient Austrian-Hungarian monarchy,were the people were distinguished by their "mother tongue" - f.e. you could have been an Austrian citizen and Hungarian mother tongue.Or Czech mother tongue.
>

The Austro-Hungarian census in fact asked numerous language questions, 
including Muttersprache (mother tongue), Umgangssprache (everyday 
language), Denksprache (language of thought) and Familiensprache (family 
language).

Bob Rothstein

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