In 2009 there remained only 5 fluent speakers whose first language was not English.
While a few fluent speakers remain, all are senior citizens.
She was a young lady very much interested in the arts and a fluent French speaker.
There are only a few fluent speakers left (perhaps about 10), all of them elderly.
Most people in the country can speak a little Irish, but only a small number of the population are fluent or native speakers.
That said, the meaning is probably obvious to a fluent speaker, when put in context.
Among the young only 0.1% or one in a thousand are fluent speakers.
Thanks to his upbringing in the country he became a fluent French speaker.
He was a fluent Irish speaker, having learned the language from his parents.
The last fluent speaker in the community died 10 years ago.