The statistic reflects the distribution of languages in Canada in 2022. In 2022, 87.1 percent of the total population in Canada spoke English as their native tongue.
Data on languages spoken at home by mother tongue, immigrant status and period of immigration and first official language spoken for the population in private households in Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and parts.
This statistic shows the top ten mother tongue languages of immigrants in Canada in 2015. Tagalog was spoken by 40,769 immigrants in Canada in 2015.
Data on language spoken at home by single and multiple responses of language spoken at home, mother tongue and age for the population excluding institutional residents for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.
This is Statistics Canada collected census data for 2016. The data refers only to the population in private households. Residents of collective dwellings (dwellings of a commercial, institutional or communal nature) are excluded. Calgary geographic boundaries are from the municipal 2017 Census by Ward.
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Data on first official language spoken, language spoken most often at home, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents for Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions.
Data on mother tongue, language spoken most often at home, other language(s) spoken regularly at home, knowledge of official languages, first official language spoken, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents.
This statistic shows the percentage of mother-tongue speakers of the top ten most spoken Aboriginal languages who spoke their language at home in Canada in 2011. Over 90 percent of people in Canada whose mother-tongue was Atikamekw spoke it at home more than any other language in 2011.
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Data on language spoken most often at home by age for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions.
In 2021, French was the first language spoken by over 71 percent of the population of Montréal, Québec in Canada. 20.4 percent of the city's residents had English as their first language, 6.7 percent used both English and French as their primary language, and 1.6 percent of the population spoke another language. That same year, 46.4 percent of people living in the province of Québec could speak both English and French.
Presents socio-demographic information of York Region’s population and is aggregated from Statistics Canada’s Census data. For reference purposes, York Region data is compared to those of Ontario, Canada, the Greater Toronto Area and York Region local municipalities.
In August 2017 Statistics Canada released data from the 2016 census focusing on language characteristics of the Canadian population, including mother tongue, knowledge of official languages, languages most often spoken at home and other home languages. This information product from the Office of Statistics and Information analyses the data from an Alberta perspective. In Alberta, the majority of people speak English but immigrant languages, especially those from Asian countries, are becoming increasingly common. In addition, Aboriginal languages are increasingly being used in households.
Data on mother tongue by generation status, number of languages known, age and gender for the population in private households in Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts.
This Alberta Official Statistic compares the knowledge of languages among the Aboriginal Identity population in provinces and territories, based on self-assessment of the ability to converse in the language. Based on the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS), English is the most common language known by the Aboriginal Identity Population across Canada. In most provinces, nearly 100% of the Aboriginal Identity population can converse in English. The lowest proportion of English-speaking Aboriginal people is in Quebec, where the majority speak French. The highest proportion of Aboriginal people who speak Aboriginal languages was in Nunavut at 88.6%, followed by Quebec (32.4%) and the Northwest Territories (32.1%). In Alberta, more Aboriginal people are able to speak Aboriginal languages (15.1%) than are able to speak French or other (non-Aboriginal) languages. The proportion of Alberta Aboriginal people able to speak Aboriginal languages was sixth highest among provinces and territories.
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Contained within the 5th Edition (1978 to 1995) of the National Atlas of Canada is plate with a series of maps. The first map that shows distribution of Indian and Inuit communities; most give status (for example, Indian Reserve), area, name, and linguistic family (eleven major families representing 51 languages). Inset for southwestern British Columbia. Summary charts of Indians by status, and of Indians and Inuit by linguistic family; 1976 data. Two smaller maps: one of native culture areas of Canada, the other showing native language families from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Languages used by the business or organization in providing services or performing activities over the last 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2023.
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Information collected through this process is used by Canadian Heritage to prepare the Annual Report on Official Languages, the Best Practices Digests for Part VII and various other tools to support federal institutions with the implementation of Part VII of the OLA.
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The current 50 languages of Canada's indigenous peoples belong to 11 major language families - ten First Nations and Inuktitut. Canada's Aboriginal languages are many and diverse, and their importance to indigenous people immense. This map shows the major aboriginal language families by community in Canada for the year 1996.
According to the Canadian government, approximately 2.54 million people residing in Montreal, in the province of Quebec, had French as their mother tongue in 2021. About 474,730 of them had English, the second official language, as their birth language. However, there were more people that year ( 522,255) whose mother tongue was an Indo-European language, such as German, Russian or Polish.
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Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a map that shows the locations of occupied Indian Reserves, settlements and other communities. For each of the locations plotted, the major linguistic groups for the communities are denoted as a percentage of the total number of registered Indians in Canada as of 1969 along with the names of the Bands participating in these linguistic groups. A small supplementary map image shows the extent of major linguistic groups throughout Canada.
The statistic reflects the distribution of languages in Canada in 2022. In 2022, 87.1 percent of the total population in Canada spoke English as their native tongue.