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In article <CsBKvA.43K@acsu.buffalo.edu> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
>I would be interested in finding out recent estimates, as reliable as possible
>(of course), of numbers of speakers of languages native to the Americas.  I
>would like to get both recent estimates of numbers of native/first-language
>speakers who are still fluent, and also numbers of native people whose
>first language was English, Spanish, or French but who later became fluent
>in their aboriginal language.  Reliable recent information about any language 
>or languages is solicited, ad hoc estimates will be useful if more official
>information is not available.  If there are published sources to support
>any claims, I'd like to know those, and of course pointers to any
>compendia, source books, handbooks, etc., that would have reliable recent
>estimates would be great.  I am interested in estimates for both North
>America and Latin America.   Thanks in advance.  I'll post a summary table
>if I get enough information to justify such.
>
>David Mark
>Department of Geography
>University at Buffalo
>dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu

David, a good place to start for Canadian figures would be either
the 1991 Census or the Aboriginal Peoples Survey conducted as part of the
larger census.  Failing that you might want to contact either Statistics
Canada or the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (both are federal
government departments in Ottawa, Ontario).

Let me know what you find out... sounds interesting!  What about other
areas of cultural retention/survival?

Al Patenaude			email:  alp0@inukshuk.gov.nt.ca
Yellowknife, N.W.T., Canada