The 2001 census recorded 10 % of the local population spoke the language, a five fold increase over ten years from the figure of 2 % recorded in 1991.

337 – 45 ), listening to his father's accounts of his own sea voyages as a merchant The father probably spoke in the Aeolian dialect of Cyme but Hesiod probably grew up speaking the local Boeotian dialect.

Although most peasants in France spoke local dialects, an official language emerged in Paris and the French language became the preferred language of Europe's aristocracy.

Mohammed also recommended that the two seek assistance from the local Muslim community, since neither spoke English nor had experience with Western culture.

Until the mid-20th century, most Chinese people living in many parts of southern China spoke only their local language.

They spoke Whulshootseed, a local form of Lushootseed ; most Muckleshoots today do not speak their ancestral language, but some do and the tribe has an active program for its preservation and resuscitation.

Despite the dominance of French, local populations still largely spoke their native languages.

He spoke directly to the promotion director John Lassman, who accepted the song " Runaway " for inclusion on the station's compilation album of local homegrown talent.

Mausolus, although descended from local people, spoke Greek and admired the Greek way of life and government.

He spoke and developed written Native languages and is credited for spreading the Gospel among the local Ottawas and Ojibwe.

While no Pequot tribes ever lived in this area, they spoke an Algonquian language related to that of the local Chippewa ( Ojibwe ) tribes.

Choosing to appear as familiar as possible to his mainland hosts, Soong spoke his greetings in the local dialect in each of the cities that he visited.

Members of a guerrilla gardening group spoke about reclaiming unused land for growing vegetables, how this helps the local community and how it can be a driver for change.

The Nation was to be balanced between various local nationalities ( he spoke of the " Lorraine nationality " as much as of the " French nationality ") through decentralisation and the call for a leader, giving a Bonapartist aspect to his thought which explained his attraction for the General Boulanger and his opposition to liberal democracy.

Neither Frederick nor his wife spoke Czech, so court offices were staffed primarily with foreigners, while the administration of the localities was left to the local nobles.

People spoke the local dialect in daily life.

At one time, over a third of Pennsylvania's population spoke this language, which also had an impact on the local dialect of English.

Nevertheless Emile Verhaeren also spoke the local dialect ( Dutch was not taught at school at that time ).

It has been implied by modern scholars that many of the local people spoke the Celtic language now termed Brythonic, called lingua Gallica ( Gaulish ) by the Romans ; this language is ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton.

A later study found that there had been no plots for the overthrow of the revolutionaries by the United States, and that a CIA intelligence gathering mission at the embassy was " notably ineffectual, gathering little information and hampered by the fact that none of the three officers spoke the local language, Persian ".

As local people in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso called the travelling traders by their trade name ( Djoula ), they also used the same name to identify the language they spoke ( Djoula kan ).

The legislatures, on the other hand, spoke for the local citizens and they were given considerable leeway by the federal government to make local law.

By the 2nd century common era, the area had become a center of Phoenician-speaking Christianity, where bishops spoke and wrote in Punic, and even Emperor Septimius Severus was noted by his local accent.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

The Mitanni appeared in the 17th century BC and spoke an Indo-Aryan language related to the Indo-European languages eventually to be found in India.

Historically, they spoke the Ainu language and related varieties and lived in Hokkaidō, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin.

In ancient times Assyrians spoke a dialect of the Akkadian language, an eastern branch of the Semitic languages.

He probably spoke only his native language, Coptic, but his sayings were spread in a Greek translation.

Saint Shenouda was a popular leader who only spoke to the Egyptians in Egyptian language ( Coptic ), the language of the repressed, not in Greek, the language of the rulers.

Few of those of the 15-19 year-old age-group spoke Breton, which is now considered to be an endangered language.

69. 4 % spoke English, 6. 9 % Spanish, 3. 2 % Chinese or Mandarin, 3. 0 % Portuguese, 2. 9 % French Creole, 2. 3 % French, 1. 5 % Korean, and 1. 0 % Italian as their first language.

The leadership of this multi-ethnic movement came to be dominated by leftist, Christian dissidents who spoke Tigrinya, Eritrea's predominant language.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

As of 1945, 97. 3 % of Estonia considered itself ethnic Estonian and spoke the language.

" It goes on to say in verses 5-11 that when the Apostles spoke, each person in attendance " heard their own language being spoken.

About 92 % of the population spoke German as their first language.

The Galatians were still speaking the Galatian language ( Gaulish ) in the time of St. Jerome ( 347 – 420 AD ), who wrote that the Galatians of Ancyra and the Treveri of Trier ( in what is now the German Rhineland ) spoke the same language ( Comentarii in Epistolam ad Galatos, 2. 3, composed c. 387 ).

A curious fact is that Luther spoke a dialect which had minor importance in the German language of that time.

Despite the use of " Hatti ", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.

The population of most of the Hittite Empire by this time spoke Luwian dialects, another Indo-European language of the Anatolian family that had originated to the west of the Hittite region.

" On the basis of the existing name records, a number of scholars suggest that the Huns spoke a Turkic language of the Oghur branch, which also includes Bulgar, Avar, Khazar and Chuvash languages.

Covering large parts of modern day France, Belgium, northwest Germany and northern Italy, Gaul was inhabited by many Celtic and Belgae tribes whom the Romans referred to as Gauls and who spoke the Gaulish language roughly between the Seine and the Garonne ( Gallia Celtica ).

On the lower Garonne the people spoke Aquitanian, an archaic language related to Basque whereas a Belgian language was spoken north of Lutecia.