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The Politics of Early Language Teaching: Hungarian in thePrimary
Schools of the Dual Monarchy
by goston Berecz
(Central European University, Budapest New Europe College,
Bucharest)
the area under study as defined for statistical purposes, within
the Dualist Kingdom of Hungary
Mother-tongue groups in proportion to the wholepopulation
Romanian Hungarian German
1880 census 53.0% 28.6% 10.5%
1910 census 53.2% 35.2% 9.5%
Self-declared monolinguals amongthe native speakers in 1880
Te araction of the language in 1880
Romanian 92.7% 18.1% of non-Romanians claimed to speakRomanian
as a second language.
Hungarian 77.9% 5.6% of non-Magyars claimed to speakHungarian as
a second, third etc. language.
