Gwich'in, Cree speakers very low in N.W.T., stats show (fwd link)

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Gwich'in, Cree speakers very low in N.W.T., stats show

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | 8:12 AM CT
CBC News

At least two northern aboriginal languages are at risk of dying off as mother
tongues in the Northwest Territories, according to statistics released recently
by Statistics Canada and the territory's Bureau of Statistics.

The figures, which come from the 2006 census, show that about 20 per cent of
N.W.T. residents speak a mother tongue that is neither English nor French. But
when those respondents are broken down by language, Gwich'in and Cree came dead
last, trailing behind even Chinese and Vietnamese in the number of mother-tongue
speakers.

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