Editing Norfolk Island (section)

===Language===
{{main|Languages of Norfolk Island}}
Islanders speak both English and a [[creole language]] known as [[Norfuk language|Norfuk]], a blend of 18th-century English and [[Tahitian language|Tahitian]], based on [[Pitkern language|Pitkern]]. The Norfuk language is decreasing in popularity as more tourists visit the island, and more young people leave for work and education. However, efforts are being made to keep it alive via dictionaries and the renaming of some tourist attractions to their Norfuk equivalents.

In 2004, an act of the Norfolk Island Assembly made Norfuk a co-official language of the island.<ref name="language act" /><ref>''[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)|The Dominion Post]]'', 21 April 2005 (page B3)</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Squires|first=Nick|title=Save our dialect, say Bounty islanders|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4195917/Save-our-dialect-say-Bounty-islanders.html|access-date=6 April 2007|newspaper=The Telegraph UK|date=19 April 2005|location=London|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316041437/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4195917/Save-our-dialect-say-Bounty-islanders.html|archive-date=16 March 2014}}</ref> The act is long-titled: "An Act to recognise the Norfolk Island Language (Norf'k) as an official language of Norfolk Island". The "language known as 'Norf'k'" is described as the language "that is spoken by descendants of the first free settlers of Norfolk Island who were descendants of the settlers of Pitcairn Island". The act recognises and protects use of the language but does not require it; in official use, it must be accompanied by an accurate translation into English.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.norfolkisland.com.au/AboutNorfolk_language.aspx | title = About Norfolk – Language | publisher = Norfolkisland.com.au | access-date = 13 April 2012 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120502163842/http://www.norfolkisland.com.au/AboutNorfolk_language.aspx | archive-date = 2 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=16223 | title = Norfuk declared official language in Norfolk Island – report | publisher = Radio New Zealand International | access-date = 13 April 2012 | date = 20 April 2005 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120717082416/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=16223 | archive-date = 17 July 2012}}</ref> 32% of the total population reported speaking a language other than English in the 2011 census, and just under three-quarters of the ordinarily resident population could speak Norfuk.<ref name=2011census />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Languages of Norfolk Island most frequently spoken at home in given census year<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=2021 Norfolk Island, Census All persons QuickStats {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/90104 |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=www.abs.gov.au |archive-date=24 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324050232/https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/90104 |url-status=live }}</ref>
!Language
!2016
!2021
|-
|English
|45.5%
|52.4%
|-
|Norfuk
|40.9%
|30.5%
|-
|Fijian
|2.0%
|1.2%
|-
|Tagalog
|1.0%
|0.8%
|-
|Filipino
|0.8%
|0.5%
|-
|Mandarin Chinese
|0.7%
|0.5%
|}