DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
WASHINGTON
Thirteenth Census of the United States
April 15, 1910
INSTRUCTIONS TO ENUMERATORS
Study these instructions carefully before beginning work and carry this book with you during your work.
Washington: Government Printing Office: 1910
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INSTRUCTIONS TO ENUMERATORS
134. The following is a list of principal foreign languages spoken in the United States. Avoid giving other names when one in this list can be applied to the language spoken. With the exception of certain languages of eastern Russia, the list gives a name for every European language in the proper sense of the word.
| Albanian | Gypsy | Roumanian |
| Armenian | Irish | Russian |
| Basque | Italian | Rutherian |
| Bohemian | Japanese | Scotch |
| Breton | Lappish | Servian or Croatian (including Bosnian, Dalmatian, Herzegovinian and Montenegrin) |
| Bulgarian | Lettish | Slovak |
| Chinese | Little Russian | Slovenian |
| Danish | Lithuanian | Spanish |
| Dutch | Magyar | Swedish |
| Finnish | Moravian | Syrian |
| Flemish | Norwegian | Turkish |
| French | Polish | Welsh |
| German | Portuguese | Wendish |
| Greek | Rhaeto-Romish (including Ladin & Friulan) | Yiddish |
135. Do not write "Austrian," but write German, Bohemian, Ruthenian, Roumanian, Slovenian, Slovak, or such other term as correctly defines the language spoken.
136. Do not write "Slavic" or "Slavonian," but write Slovak, Slovenian, Russian, etc., as the case may be.
137. Do not write "Macedonian," but write Bulgarian, Turkish, Greek, Servian, or Roumanian, as the case may be.