Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 speakers of the language remain, while other research places the number at fewer than 15 speakers – the language has been regarded as “ endangered ”.

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

In recent decades the number of Welsh speakers in the town has increased dramatically.

The Pribilof Islands boast the highest number of active speakers of Aleutian.

The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili ; however, nearly all speakers know it as a second language.

This means that in spite of long having been the Celtic language with the highest number of speakers, the language is now endangered.

There are also a substantial number of Welsh speakers in the Patagonia area of Argentina.

SIL Ethnologue lists six " living " Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers.

UNESCO classifies Corsican as a potentially endangered language, as it has " a large number of children speakers " but is " without an official or prestigious status ".

With a population of approximately 3, 000, and the number of speakers in the mere hundreds, Alutiiq communities are currently in the process of revitalizing their language.

It gives the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations, availability of the Bible in the language, and so forth.

The number of speakers has grown gradually over time, although it has not had much support from governments and international bodies, and has sometimes been outlawed or otherwise suppressed.

At first a number of leading Esperantists put their support behind the Ido project, but the movement stagnated and declined, first with the accidental death of one of its main proponents and later as people proposed further changes, and the number of current speakers is estimated at between 250 and 5000.

Meanwhile Schleyer publishes a sketch of Volapük, the first constructed international auxiliary language to acquire a number of speakers.

The only minority language with a significant number of speakers ( 5. 4 %) was Polish ( a figure that rises to over 6 % when including Kashubian, Masurian, and other forms classified by the Imperial government as separate languages but today more often considered variants of Polish ).

It is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, based on the number of native speakers.

Hausa ( ه َ و ُ س َ, Yaren Hausa – language of the Hausa ) is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people.

Non-native speakers of Hausa number around 25 million, and in some areas live close to native Hausa. Hausa has replaced many other languages especially in the North Central and North Eastern part of Nigeria, and continue gaining popularity in other parts of Africa as a result of Hausa movies and musics which spread out throughout the region.

Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries ( such as Switzerland and Albania ) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is more than 85 million.

Indo-European languages are spoken by almost three billion native speakers, the largest number by far for any recognised language family.

" Fleming grew the mould in a pure culture and found that it produced a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

Since various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the actions of a number of real women.

As the number of potential peripherals grew, using an expansion card for every peripheral became increasingly untenable.

A number of respected monthly publications, including the popular science magazine " Наука и жизнь " (" Science and Life "), featured special columns, dedicated to optimization techniques for calculator programmers and updates on undocumented features for hackers, which grew into a whole esoteric science with many branches, known as " yeggogology " (" еггогология ").

As computers grew in speed and capability, a number of general-purpose database systems emerged ; by the mid-1960s there were a number of such systems in commercial use.

The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey ( ARIS ), which involved 50, 000 participants, reported that the number of participants in the survey identifying themselves as deists grew at the rate of 717 percent between 1990 and 2001.

Subsequently, networks facilitating the process of money transfer and payment settlement between the consumer and the merchant grew from a small number of nationwide systems to the majority of payment processing transactions.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

Also, the bandwidth cost of searching on gnutella grew exponentially to the number of connected users, often saturating connections and rendering slower nodes useless.

Emancipation brought a supply of free labor to the cities, industry was stimulated, and the middle class grew in number and influence.

From 25 users in July 1994, the number of users grew to 1, 000 by November 1995, 5, 000 by June 1996, 10, 000 by December 1996, 50, 000 by October 1999, 100, 000 in November 2001, and peaked around 142, 000 in April 2002.

The number of servers grew from 2 – 4 when started, peaking at 44 in April 2002.

With a " concession rule " that required participants to make a certain number of concessions, early debates at IALA sometimes grew from heated to explosive.

It also describes the prosperity of the Nephites-they grew in number, worked in gold and silver, built buildings and machinery, engaged in various metalworks, agriculture equipment as well as weaponry.

Initially, 37 men were arrested, but the number quickly grew into hundreds.

The number of courses grew to six and beyond.

The number of theaters exhibiting independent films grew by 33 percent within twelve months, to half of all houses.

As Western influence grew in Asia a greater number of military personnel spent time in China, Japan, and South Korea during World War II and the Korean War and were exposed to local fighting styles.

As the capability of computers grew, the number of devices the kernel had to control also grew.

The number of Polish settlers grew significantly again in the beginning of 15th century, especially after the first and the second treaties of Thorn, in 1411 and 1466 respectively, following the Thirteen Years ' War and the final defeat of the order.