Mother Tongue: Census Numbers

Mother Tongues Dept: The city is still predominately English, but the number of residents reporting English as their mother tongue has dropped below 90 per cent, according to CBC. The census numbers show Asian immigration is largely a Charlottetown phenomenon. The numbers of Islanders reporting mother tongues that are not English or French were small outside of Charlottetown and neighbouring communities and there has been a big shift in the languages people are speaking in Charlottetown, census numbers released Wednesday reveal. The number of mother-tongue English speakers has grown, but the percentage of them in the population has fallen in the face of Asian immigration. Residents reporting one of the Chinese languages as their mother tongue rose to 3.7 per cent in 2011 from just 0.3 per cent in 2006. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.