A Sketch Of The Linguistic Conditions Of Chicago Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Sketch of the Linguistic Conditions of Chicago Chinese - Chinese is Spoken by between one and two thousand persons. AS is well known, the Chinese element is Strongest in California and the other Pacific states. In the East the greatest number is in New York. There are two Chinese papers, one in New York, the other in San Francisco. Japanese - Japanese is spoken by less than a hundred persons. The Census gives 80 as born in Japan. The Japanese are most numerous in California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho in the order named. Turkish - AS far as I can learn, there are no Turks in the city at present, though one or two remained Stranded here for some years after the exposition of 1893. But the Turkish language is not unrepresented, for the reason that nearly all the Armenians, that is, all the male adults, Speak Turkish in addition to their own lan guage. There are probably very few Turks anywhere in the country, the language being represented mainly by the Armenian population, which is almost exclusively from Turkish Armenia. Basque - Basque is represented by a few individuals only. I have not learned of any considerable number of Basques anywhere in the country. The native Indian languages are almost wholly unrepresented. There is a resi dent physician who is a full-blooded Sioux, and occasionally a party of Indians is brought here for a few months for commercial purposes. But practically the Indian languages play no part in the linguistic conditions of the city. I have not learned of any representations of the malay-polynesian group of languages, though it is quite possible that there are a few Hawaiians or Samoans engaged in business. The Census gives 46 as born in the Pacific Islands, but these are probably of American parentage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.