sentence: The next largest population of linguistic and ethnic groups are the 124,392 who speak German as their mother tongue even though they hail from outside of Austria ( mainly immigrants from Germany , some from Switzerland , South Tyrol in Italy , Romania , or the former Soviet Union ) ; 123,417 English ; 24,446 Albanian ; 17,899 Polish ; 14,699 Hungarian ; 12,216 Romanian ; 10,000 Malayali ; 7,982 Arabic ; 6,891 Slovak ; 6,707 Czech ; 5,916 Persian ; 5,677 Italian ; 5,466 Russian ; 5,213 French ; 4,938 Chinese ; 4,264 Spanish ; 3,503 Bulgarian .
question: who _ _ populated something _ _ ?
answers: linguistic and ethnic groups