A similar proportion of speakers was white.
Due to the close relation between the Scandinavian languages, a considerable proportion of speakers of Danish and especially Norwegian are highly fluent in Swedish for a total number of speakers that could be as high as 15 million.
The transition probability is described by t_{ij} = frac{1}{N_{ij}} sum_{A} p(i)_{A} p j)_{A}, where (p(i)_{A}), (p j)_{A}) are proportions of speakers of languages i, j in a country A, (N_{ij}) is the number of countries where i, j are co-spoken.
The largest proportion of Euskera speakers live in the province of Guipúzcoa.
The city also boasts a number of engineering colleges and a high proportion of English-speakers.
Despite official measures to strengthen French here, the proportion of French-speakers in Quebec's population is expected to erode slightly in the next quarter-century, to 81percentt.
The proportion of Rhaetian speakers in Graubünden fell from two-fifths in 1880 to one-fourth in 1970, with a corresponding increase in the Italian-speaking population.
One man who toured the eastern bloc in the 1970s and 1980s and seemed to know so many people that the Russian guides were invariably suspicious, produces photographs that prove beyond all doubt that a high proportion of Esperanto speakers in that neck of the woods were, and maybe still are, in their 20s, and frequently female.
And the proportion of Welsh-speakers is likely to increase further, since teenagers are much more likely to be able to speak the language than their parents.That ought to be a source of pride in a country where identity is closely tied to the ancestral tongue.
