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Calinda E. Hallberg and Clare F. O’Leary
(22) Mittikot men: reported frequencies
for hearing and speaking Urdu
percent and number responding at each level
compared to Urdu SRT means
Hear Urdu Speak Urdu
Percent n Percent n
never 31% 18 48% 28
1x/month 28 16 14 8
1x/2wks. 9 5 3 2
1x/wk. 7 4 3 2
2-3x/wk. 14 8 12 7
1x/day 2 1 7 4
many x/day 10 6 12 7
Total 58 58
Reported frequency Urdu SRT
of Speaking Urdu n SRT m sd
never 19 13 10.1
1 or 2x/month 9 14 10.0
2x/week to many x/day 14 25 10.4
Total 42
Notice that the reports of Urdu use are much less frequent
for Mittikot men than for Peshmal men. Almost half report that
they never speak Urdu, in contrast to only 6 percent who
reported no use of Urdu among the Peshmal men. Considering
only those who participated in the Urdu SRT testing as shown in
the second half of this figure, the highest frequency group
consists of all those who reported speaking Urdu twice or three
times a week combined with those few reporting that they speak
it once or many times a day, since all such reports were relatively
infrequent; there were no patterned differences between those
combined into this group. It is only this group which shows a
significantly higher Urdu SRT mean. Again this reflects the
paucity of subjects reporting frequent use of Urdu in Mittikot.
As in the Peshmal data, the significant differences between
the measures of Urdu proficiency for those who report using