 There are 8 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.Of the population in the village, 254 or about 44.6% were born in Ayer and lived there in 2000.There were 106 or 18.6% who were born in the same canton, while 92 or 16.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 95 or 16.7% were born outside of Switzerland.