ABSTRACT
This chapter presents basic findings for each of the local linguistic minorities surveyed by Linguistic Minorities Project in the cities. It discusses the questions on language skills and literacy and discusses language use in the home and family. The chapter also discusses the data on language in the workplace, in free time and in minority institutions follows. It presents the data relating to participation in mother tongue teaching and attitudes towards it. The chapter uses the term 'minority languages' which referring to the languages in which the different versions of the questionnaire were printed, for which the interviewing teams were recruited, and which formed the main focus of the questions. The pattern of language use revealed in later questions by the Italian-speaking respondents, especially in Coventry, suggests the alternative hypothesis that language shift to English has advanced further with them than with other linguistic minorities.
