According to official census figures , NUMBER@1 % of the population claimed to speak Manx in NUMBER@2 ; in NUMBER@3 the percentage was only NUMBER@4 % .

In NUMBER@2 , NUMBER@5 % of the people in the MISC@1 were said to speak Manx but in NUMBER@3 the number dropped to only NUMBER@6 % . The census of NUMBER@7 said that NUMBER@8 % of the population of the island could speak the language .
