Editing Mohawk language (section)

===Current number of speakers===
In 2011, there were approximately 3,500 speakers of Mohawk, primarily in Quebec, Ontario and western New York.<ref>Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. ''Atlas of World Languages'' (New York: Routelege, 1994) p. 7</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mohawk|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/moh|website=Ethnologue|access-date=Jan 26, 2016}}</ref> Immersion (monolingual) classes for young children at [[Akwesasne]] and other reserves are helping to train new first-language speakers. The importance of immersion classes among parents grew after the passage of [[Charter of the French Language|Bill 101]], and in 1979 the Mohawk Survival School was established to facilitate language training at the high school level.<ref>{{cite report |author= Michael Hoover|title= The Revival of the Mohawk Language in Kahnawake |url= http://www3.brandonu.ca/cjns/12.2/hoover.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
| last = Tanya Lee
| title = Ambitious and Controversial School Attempts to Save the Mohawk Language and Culture
| work = Indian Country Today Media Network
| access-date = 2013-02-08
| date = 2012-07-29
| url = http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/ambitious-and-controversial-school-attempts-to-save-the-mohawk-language-and-culture-126169
}}</ref> [[Kahnawake]] and [[Kanatsiohareke]] offer immersion classes for adults.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Sam Slotnick
| title = Learning More Than a Language : Intensive Kanienʼkéha Course a Powerful Link for Mohawk Community
| work = The Link: Concordia's Independent Newspaper Sonce 1980
| access-date = 2013-02-08
| url = http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/3962
}}</ref><ref>
{{Cite news
| last = Kay Olan
| title = Kanatsiohareke, Language and Survival
| work = Indian Country Today Media Network
| access-date = 2013-02-08
| date = 2011-06-16
| url = http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/opinion/kanatsiohareke%2C-language-and-survival-38706
}}</ref> In the 2016 Canadian census, 875 people said Mohawk was their only mother tongue.<ref name="census"/>