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| Data Source: | U.S. Census Bureau & Social Explorer |
| Table: | P29. Household Language And Linguistic Isolation [11] |
Universe: Households
Table Details
| P29. | Household Language And Linguistic Isolation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Universe: Households | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Relevant Documentation:
| Excerpt from: | Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; Census of Population and Housing, 1990: Summary Tape File 3 on CD-ROM [machine-readable data files] / prepared by the Bureau of the Census. Washington: The Bureau [producer and distributor], 1991. |
| Summary Tape File 3 -> Appendix B. Definitions of Subject Characteristics -> Population Characteristics -> Language Spoken At Home and Ability to Speak English -> Household Language |
In households where one or more persons (age 5 years old or over) speak a language other than English, the household language assigned to all household members is the non-English language spoken by the first person with a non-English language in the following order:
householder, spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandchild, other relative, stepchild, unmarried partner, housemate or roommate, roomer, boarder, or foster child, or other nonrelative. Thus, persons who speak only English may have a non-English household language assigned to them in tabulations of persons by household language.
householder, spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandchild, other relative, stepchild, unmarried partner, housemate or roommate, roomer, boarder, or foster child, or other nonrelative. Thus, persons who speak only English may have a non-English household language assigned to them in tabulations of persons by household language.
| Figure 1. Four- and Twenty-Five-Group Classifications of 1990 Census Languages Spoken at Home with Illustrative Examples | ||
|---|---|---|
| Four-Group Classification | Twenty-Five-Group Classification | Examples |
| Spanish Other Indo-European | Spanish | Spanish, Ladino |
| French | French, Cajun,French Creole | |
| Italian | ||
| Portuguese | ||
| German | ||
| Yiddish | ||
| Other West | Afrikaans, Dutch, | |
| Germanic | Pennsylvania Dutch | |
| Scandanavian | Danish, Norwegian, Swedish | |
| Polish | ||
| Russian | ||
| South Slavic | Serbocroatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene | |
| Other Slavic | Czech, Slovak, Ukranian | |
| Greek | ||
| Indic | Hindi, Bengali, Gujarathi, Punjabi, Romany, Sinhalese | |
| Other Indo European, | Armenian, Gaelic, | |
| not elsewhere classified | Lithuanian, Persian | |
| Languages of Asia and the Pacific | Chinese | |
| Japanese | ||
| Mon-Khmer | Cambodian | |
| Tagalog | ||
| Korean | ||
| Vietnamese | ||
| Other languages | Chamorro, Dravidian | |
| (part) | Languages, Hawaiian, | |
| Ilocano, Thai, Turkish | ||
| All other languages | Arabic | |
| Hungarian | ||
| Native North | ||
| American languages | ||
| Other languages | Amharic, Syriac, | |
| (part) | Finnish, Hebrew, | |
| Languages of | ||
| Central and South | ||
| America, Other | ||
| Languages of Africa | ||
| Excerpt from: | Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; Census of Population and Housing, 1990: Summary Tape File 3 on CD-ROM [machine-readable data files] / prepared by the Bureau of the Census. Washington: The Bureau [producer and distributor], 1991. |
| Summary Tape File 3 -> Appendix B. Definitions of Subject Characteristics -> Population Characteristics -> Language Spoken At Home and Ability to Speak English -> Linguistic Isolation |
A household in which no person age 14 years or over speaks only English and no person age 14 years or over who speaks a language other than English speaks English "Very well" is classified as "linguistically isolated." All the members of a linguistically isolated household are tabulated as linguistically isolated, including members under age 14 years who may speak only English.
