What's being spoken at home?

[Joshua Fishman]

Web-site does not respond. JAF

--- "Harold F. Schiffman"
<haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >From the NY Times, October 10, 2003
>
> National Briefing: Washington
>
>       WHAT'S BEING SPOKEN AT HOME Nearly one in
> five Americans say they
> speak a language other than English at home,
> the Census Bureau reported.
> Most of those people say they speak Spanish at
> home, followed by Chinese,
> French and German. The number of Americans who
> say they speak Russian
> increased the most during the last decade,
> nearly tripling to more than
> 700,000. Census officials said the spike in
> Russian speakers reflected an
> overall rise in Russian immigration since the
> fall of the Soviet Union. In
> 2000, about 18 percent of the population aged 5
> and older, or about 47
> million people, said they spoke a language
> other than English at home up
> from 14 percent, or nearly 32 million in 1990.
> (NYT)
>
>
>
>

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pdf
name=census.pdf



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