843 



6. Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Russian languages. 



West Indies 84,000 



Guyana 117,000 



Russia, on theN. W. coast 15,000 



216,000 



RECAPITULATION. 



English language 11,647,000 



Spanish 16,504,000 



Indian 7,593,000 



Portuguese 3,740,000 



French 1,242,000 



Dutch, Danish and Swedish 216,000 



34,942,000 



Languages of Latin Europe 1 5,486,000 



Languages of Germanic root 11,863,000 



European languages 27,349,000 



Indian languages 7,593,000 



I have not mentioned separately the German, 

 the Gaelic (Irish) and the Basque, because the 

 numerous individuals who preserve the know- 

 ledge of those mother-tongues, understand also 

 English or the Castillian. The number of indi- 

 viduals who usually speak the Indian lan- 

 guages, is at present as 1 : 3| to the number 

 who employ the languages of Europe. By the 

 more rapid increase of the population of the 

 United States, the languages of the German 



