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Thursday, 13 June 2013

London's language nightmare.....

Revealed: The language map of England which shows where up to 40% of people say English is not their mother tongue

  • Polish is the main language of 546,000 people in England and Wales
  • One in five people in London have a main language which is not English
  • 100 different languages spoken across the UK, including Cornish, Manx Gaelic and Caribbean Creole.
The facts above, and it is the London one this article is concerned about, shows how our Capital is being changed into a vertiable Tower of Babel.


This is the language map of England which reveals the parts of the country where as many as two in five people do not have English as their mother tongue.
New data shows the proportion of people across who say English is not their main language ranging from 0.7 per cent in Redcar and Cleveland to 41.4 per cent in Newham in London.
The breakdown from the 2011 national census also revealed the second most commonly spoken language in the country is now Polish.
The greatest number of languages is spoken in London, where more than 100 different ones are used in every borough but three.
Among those reported were Danish, Caribbean Creole, Gypsy or traveller language, Nepalese, Pashto and Malayalam.
- More than 300,000 people living in London can't speak English
- Census data also shows 78pc of residents have English as first language
- Nearly 1.7m people don't have English as first language


So our capital city is now the modern equivalent of the biblical Tower Of Babel - and we all know what happened to that!


 





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