Editing Marquesas Islands (section)

====Language data in 2017 census====
At the 2017 census, 97.0% of the population whose age was 15 and older reported that they could speak French (up from 94.1% at the 2007 census). 92.6% reported that they could also read and write it (up from 90.2% at the 2007 census). Only 1.9% of the population whose age was 15 and older had no knowledge of French (down from 4.4% at the 2007 census).<ref name=language /><ref name="lang">{{cite web|url=http://www.ispf.pf/Libraries/RP2007/6_Langues_v2003.sflb.ashx|title=LAN3b – Population de 15 ans et plus par connaissance des langues selon la subdivision de résidence et l'âge décennal|publisher=ISPF|access-date=2013-10-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113194513/http://www.ispf.pf/Libraries/RP2007/6_Langues_v2003.sflb.ashx|archive-date=13 November 2012}}</ref>

At the same census, 66.9% of the population whose age was 15 and older reported that the language they spoke the most at home was Marquesan (down from 67.8% at the 2007 census). 30.2% reported that French was the language they spoke the most at home (up from 30.1% at the 2007 census). 2.3% reported [[Tahitian language|Tahitian]] (up from 1.4% at the 2007 census), and 0.6% reported another language (down from 0.7% at the 2007 census).<ref name=language /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2007/Details/Langues.aspx |title=Recensements de la population > 2007 > Données détaillées > Langues |publisher=ISPF |access-date=2013-10-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113145404/http://www.ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2007/Details/Langues.aspx |archive-date=13 November 2013 }}</ref>

4.9% of the population whose age was 15 and older reported that they had no knowledge of any Polynesian language at the 2017 census (down from 7.2% at the 2007 census).<ref name=language /><ref name=lang />