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Table 12
Percentage of Inuit population who reported Inuktitut as mother tongue and as home language, and knowledge of Inuktitut, Canada and regions, 1996 and 2006
Regions Inuktitut as mother tongue1 Inuktitut as home language2 Knowledge3 of Inuktitut
1996 2006 1996 2006 1996 2006
percentage
Notes:
  1. 'Mother tongue' refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood.
  2. 'Home language' refers to the language spoken most often at home.
  3. 'Knowledge' refers to languages in which the respondent can conduct a conversation.
  4. A CMA, or census metropolitan area, has a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core.
Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1996 and 2006.
Canada 68 64 58 50 72 69
Total - Inuit Nunaat 79 78 69 63 84 84
Nunatsiavut 20 22 9 7 27 27
Nunavik 98 97 96 94 99 99
Nunavut 88 83 76 64 94 91
Inuvialuit region 20 14 4 3 23 20
Total - Outside Inuit Nunaat 13 14 4 4 16 15
Rural 9 13 1 2 11 15
Total urban 15 14 5 4 17 15
Census metropolitan area4 17 17 8 7 20 19
Urban non-census metropolitan area 13 11 3 2 16 11
Date Modified: 2009-09-22

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