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Can you name the ten most common immigrant languages spoken in the United Kingdom?
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Immigrant Languages in the UK Quiz
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ulashima
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Oct 10th, 2010 at 09:27 GMT
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No English, Welsh, Sottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and Irish speakers at all? Perhaps this was meant to be for the languages non-native to the country. Then this fact should be clearly indicated.
francs2000
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Oct 10th, 2010 at 11:44 GMT
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I thought it was in the title?
CHIPSandGRAVY
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Oct 10th, 2010 at 16:34 GMT
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Bit surprised there's no Polish and also how many Italian speakers there are.
chriskotx
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Oct 10th, 2010 at 16:40 GMT
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Wow.. I never even heard of Saraiki, Sylheti or Gujarati. Now I know.
gowhere
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Oct 11th, 2010 at 16:13 GMT
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While I doubt that that many immigrants speak Welsh Scottish Gaelic, Lowland scots, and even Irish, I would assume that many immigrants do speak English. That said, does it make it an immigrantt language?
francs2000
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Oct 11th, 2010 at 22:58 GMT
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@gowhere: if the question were the most common languages that immigrants speak then I too suspect that English would feature in the list. However as English is a native language to the UK I don't think it can be classed as an immigrant language.
gowhere
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 03:00 GMT
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Well, we could debate about whether English is a 'native' language to the UK. After all, its antecedents were brought in by invaders, and then modified by further invaders such as the Normans, but I certainly will agree that it has existed in the UK since its inception as a united kingdom and therefore on that basis can be considered native. My question was whether a language can be both native and immigrant. I'm perfectly happy to accept that it can't from a Sporcle perspective, but is something to keep in mind - that immigrants can still be native English speakers
francs2000
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 22:58 GMT
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@gowhere: even the Celts were immigrants to these isles, there is arguably no such thing as "native" British
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