INFORMATION SHEET 8
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME AND THE
PROFICIENCY IN SPOKEN ENGLISH:
TASMANIANS AS AT AUGUST 2011 CENSUS
Language Spoken at Home (LANP)
Proficiency in spoken English
Not well
Not at all
Acholi
10
0
African Languages, nec
21
4
African Languages, nfd
3
0
Afrikaans
3
3
Amharic
21
8
Anuak
3
0
Arabic
106
47
Auslan
33
40
Bengali
3
0
Bosnian
4
0
Burmese
11
5
Burmese and Related Languages, nec
26
6
Cantonese
114
38
Chin Haka
6
5
Chinese, nfd
61
0
Croatian
27
4
Czech
3
0
Dari
9
4
Dinka
4
10
Dutch
24
7
Filipino
10
0
Finnish
8
0
French
24
9
German
44
9
Greek
110
17
Hindi
30
19
Hmong
14
5
Hungarian
7
0
Indonesian
8
0
101
14
34
15
103
23
6
0
Italian
Japanese
Karen
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Kirundi (Rundi)
Korean
Proficiency in spoken English
Not well
Not at all
15
3
153
19
Krio
3
0
Lao
3
0
Latin
3
0
Latvian
4
0
Lithuanian
3
0
Macedonian
4
0
Madi
9
4
Makaton
3
0
Malay
10
6
Malayalam
11
3
6
0
273
40
3
0
220
178
32
212
3
0
10
0
Maltese
Mandarin
Maori (New Zealand)
Nepali
Non-verbal, so described
Norwegian
Oromo
Other Southern Asian Languages
5
0
Persian (excluding Dari)
30
6
Polish
75
3
Portuguese
5
0
Punjabi
12
9
Russian
20
6
Samoan
0
3
Serbian
16
0
Sign Languages, nfd
7
10
Sinhalese
6
0
Slovene
3
0
Somali
5
0
Spanish
74
19
Swahili
42
8
Tagalog
15
0
9
0
Tamil
Telugu
4
0
57
10
Tibetan
3
0
Tigrinya
33
10
Turkish
4
0
Tuvaluan
0
4
Ukrainian
3
0
Thai
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Language Spoken at Home (LANP)
Proficiency in spoken English
Not well
Not at all
Urdu
5
5
Uygur
3
0
Vietnamese
45
11
Inadequately described
20
20
Not stated
52
56
2312
937
Total
Data Source: 2011 Census of Population and Housing
Information
Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.
No reliance should be placed on small cells - The ABS uses introduced random error to ensure that individuals
cannot be identified. Please note that this table has an additional 4 persons than the total number reported on
page 5 this adjustment has been done to avoid confidential data being released by the ABS.
nfd – not further defined
nec – not elsewhere classified
Table generated using ABS TableBuilder © Commonwealth of Australia, 2012
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