The Politics of Early Language Teaching: Hungarian in the

Primary 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 whole

population
Romanian

Hungarian

German

1880 census

53.0%

28.6%

10.5%

1910 census

53.2%

35.2%

9.5%

Self-declared monolinguals among

the native speakers in 1880

The attraction of the language in 1880

Romanian

92.7%

18.1% of non-Romanians claimed to speak

Romanian as a second language.

Hungarian

77.9%

5.6% of non-Magyars claimed to speak

Hungarian as a second, third etc. language.