842 



PREPONDERANCE OF THE LANGUAGES IN THE NEW 

 CONTINENT. 



1. English language. 



United States 10,525,000 



Upper Canada, New Scotland, New Bruns- 

 wick 260,000 



West Indies, and English Guyana . . . ... . . . 862,000 



11,647,000 



2. Spanish language. 



Spanish America, namely, 



Whites 3,276,000 



Indians 1,000,000 



Mixed and negro race 6,104,000 



Spanish part of Haiti 124,000 



10,504,000 



3. Indian tongues. 



Spanish and Portuguese America, compre- 

 hending the independent tribes 7,593,000 



4. Portuguese language. 



Brazil 3 < 740 ' 000 



h. French language. 



Haiti - ,!!,,! > 00rt 



Islands dependent on France, Louisiana, and 



French Guyana 256 . 000 



Lower Canada, and some tribes of indepen- 



dant Indians 290 . 000 



1,242,000 



