Hindi growing rapidly in Australia
Mandarin and Hindi are the two fastest growing languages in Australia with the country experiencing a significant growth in the population of India- and China-born people.
The 2006 census results, released yesterday, shows a significant increases in the number of people born in India and China living in Australia, with commensurate rise in the number of those who speak the languages of each country.
Cantonese, in fact, is mounting a challenge to the traditional language groups established by Australia’s postwar Italian and Greek migrants.
Mandarin and Hindi experienced the greatest proportional growth of all languages, which has more than doubled since 1996. The reason being, there are now more than 147,000 India- born people living in Australia as compared to more than 77,000 in 1996.
Date: June 29, 2007
Article: Mandarin, Hindi are the fastest growing languages in Australia
Reference: IBN Live
July 4th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I found this to be incredibly interesting. I had no idea Australia was growing in such a way. I guess primarily because you don’t often reflect on the immigrant base of other countries, other than the one in which you live. Thanks for the interesting article.