SINGAPORE — Mr Andy Mirza, a 42-year-old lecturer at a tertiary institute, says that he exclusively speaks English to his two sons, aged 11 and 8, because he is “more comfortable with the language”.

Language use among Hispanics in the U.S. reflects the trajectories that previous immigrant groups have followed. Immigrant Hispanics are most likely to be proficient in Spanish, but least likely to be ...

Revised 12-06-07 to add the following note to Figure 13: “Puerto Ricans are excluded from the estimates in this figure.” Nearly all Hispanic adults born in the United States of immigrant parents ...