Response to inquiry: Statistics on foreign language speakers in the U. S.

[Scott McGinnis]

Hi Wayne (and heritage-listservers),

Thanks for everybody's input -- one more possible source, from David
Goldberg of MLA: the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups.

Best,
s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Barr [mailto:waynebarr at barronseduc.com]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:52 AM
To: 'Scott McGinnis'
Subject: RE: Response to inquiry: Statistics on foreign language
speakers in the U. S.


Thanks Scott. Others have suggested two other sources. But the numbers are
inconsistent. One, the Ethnologue, http://www.ethnologue.org/ , lists
900,000 speakers of Western Farsi. But according to the 1990 U.S. census,
http://www.census.gov, there are 200,000 speakers of Persian.
Regards, Wayne Barr

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McGinnis [mailto:smcginnis at nflc.org]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:51 AM
To: heritage-list at Majordomo.umd.edu; waynebarr at barronseduc.com
Subject: Response to inquiry: Statistics on foreign language speakers in
the U. S.


You can access the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education website at

			www.ncbe.gwu.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ruiz [mailto:ruizr at email.arizona.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:23 AM
To: Scott McGinnis
Subject: RE: Statistics on foreign language speakers in the U. S.


Contact Beth Antunez or Kate Mencken at NCBE. They have followed the census
numbers and have put these out regularly, including in poster form.  /rr/



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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Croghan [mailto:mcroghan at csusm.edu]
>Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:04 AM
>To: Scott McGinnis; heritage-list at Glue.umd.edu
>Subject: Re: Inquiry: Statistics on foreign language speakers in the U.
>S.
>
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>Doesn't the Center for Applied Linguistics and/or national census keep
this
>info?
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>At 10:57 AM 9/20/01 -0400, Scott McGinnis wrote:
>>Please respond directly to Wayne Barr (address given below)
>>
>>Can you recommend a research reference containing estimates of the number
>of
>>speakers of various foreign languages within the United States (e.g.,.
>>French, Farsi, etc.)?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Wayne Barr
>>.waynebarr at barronseduc.com <mailto:.waynebarr at barronseduc.com>
>
>THANKS&PEACE2U
>
>Mike Croghan
>Multilingual/Multicultural Faculty
>College of Education
>California State University, San Marcos
>(760) 750-4025
><http:///>mcroghan at csusm.edu
>
>


Richard Ruiz
Department of Language, Reading and Culture
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
ruizr at email.arizona.edu
520-621-1311
520-621-1853 (FAX)