Posted by Geraint Jennings on 16 March, 2004 at 12:02:44:
In Reply to: How many truly fluent native speakers of Jerriais left? posted by Philip on 15 March, 2004 at 04:50:19:
The last census didn't ask a question about fluency - which is difficult to judge anyway.
113 people reported that they usually spoke the language, against 2,761 who spoke it sometimes.
The last Guernsey census, which asked different questions, found that 1,327 people spoke Dgèrnésiais fluently i.e. 2% of the population, but only 1 in 1,000 young speakers were fluent. (14%of the population had some understanding of the language - the analogous question was not asked in Jersey)
Census report: http://www.policyandresources.gov.je/census/reportoct02.pdf
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