The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-21
JEWISH LEADS CITY'S
FOREIGN TONGUES
Hebrew Is Mother Language %
881,980, or 10 Per Cent
in New York.
MANHATTAN FIRST ON LIST
English and Celtic Groups Are
Ahead in Other Boroughs
Of City.

WASHINGTON, Feb 20.-JThe two larys,,
elements among the 3.747,s44 persons q,
foreign white stock in New York CITY IN
1910 were the English and Celtic rropr
and the Yiddish and Hebrew. according 70
the mother tongue bulletin which has bee,
issued recently by Director William !
Harris of the bureau OF the census Depart.
ment OF Commerce. BY mother tongue /.
meant the native language. or that spoke,
before immigration, and the rcpor, 70
lates both to the foreign born whites and
to the so-called second generation o,
foreign stock.
As thus reported. the English and
Celtic languages were the mother tongue,
Of about 81 per cent. Of the total whit,
population OF 4.sGe.1s2. followed b.
Yiddlsh and Hebrew, with 10 per cent
German. IS per cent. Italian. IL per cent
Polish. . per cent French. Swedish and
Magyar, / per cent. each.
While the Yiddish and Hebrew, with
total OF s61,9s0 persons enumerated, was
the largest foreign whire stock In the
population OF the city. with tho exception
OF the English and Celtic group. In Man.
haitian Borough alone It contributed A
still larger proportion OF the population.
or ABOUT One-tulru OF tne totdl 'O'ttgr
born white and nearly one-fourth Of the
total white population IL was more than
twice as large as any other foreign born
element OF that borough except the English
and Celtic and tho Italian. Almost
million dwellers In tho American mo-
,ropolis reported English and Celtic tln-
Guiding Irish. Scotch or Welsh) as thel,
mother tongue. Those who reported Ger
man numbered sil,ss9. as compared with
| . A NJ, Italian ThOsa urSo
reported Polish numbered ll6,lGi
In Manhattan borough the proportion
of the total white population whose mother
tongue was English or Celtic was less
than that whose mother tongue was Yld-
dish or Hebrew, being Il per cen.. or
is9.G2G, for the English or Celtic and -
per cent, or 533.4i4. for the Yiidish or
Hebrew. The proportion whose mo,hr
tongue was German was - per cent o.
33.,403.
In Bronx borough the proportion Of
those whose mother tongue was German
took the lead. being q per cent OF the
total white population. Or 1898. The
English and Celtic was represented by
81 per cent. or $3.50 Y!dd,sh ana He
brew by IL per cent. or 1851. ami the
Italian by 10 per cent, or tl,&26.
In Brooklyn borough the English and
Celtic again went to the front, that mother
tongue being represented by p per cent.
OF the total white population, or S43..is.
German was second with l13 per cent.
or 279.O1O, followed very closely by id'
| dish and Hebrew with 1872 per cent. o.
277.312: italian IL per cent. or lt9 ,S2.
and Polish per cent, or isis.
In Queens borough the German mother
tongue held the lead with "a per cent
OF the total white population, or e5,'s3.
The English and Celtic was represented
BY Is per cent, or 4q.1s3; Italian, : PEI
cent. or 10 923 and Polish per cent, o.
1l.7S7
In Richmond borough the English and
Celtic mother tongues we've In the ,eaf
with a total OF 2l.7s0 people out OF 90
5l3 persons OF foreign white stock ar .
per cent. OF tho, total white population
Those OF the German mother tongue 'cn'
resented 10 per cent. or 1855, the tai
Ian per cent. or 1856. and the dish
3 per cent, or 500.