"In Canada, 4.7 million people (14.2% of the population) reported speaking a language other than English or French most often at home and 1.9 million people (5.8%) reported speaking such a language on a regular basis as a second language (in addition to their main home language, English or French). Canada's linguistic diversity extends beyond the two official languages. Punjabi 500,000 (1.0%) 5. The provinces in which the largest percentage of their specific population speaks something other than French or English as their first language are British Columbia, 16.6 percent; Ontario, 16.1 percent; Manitoba, 10.1 percent; and Alberta, 9.8 percent. 98‑314‑X2011003, in the Census in Brief series, provides more detailed information on this subject.200,725 Canadians report an Aboriginal language as their mother tongue.18,858,908 Canadians identify their mother tongue as English.
With the adoption of the Most provinces have laws that make either English or both English and French the official language(s) of the legislature and the courts but may also have separate policies in regards to education and the bureaucracy. Outside New Brunswick and Ontario, on the other hand, the survival of such French-speaking communities is far less certain, Recent census data reveals that, in at least three provinces (British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland), the French speaking population is declining sharply, due to assimilation into the English-speaking majority. As of 1996, only three out of fifty native Aboriginal languages—Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibway—had large enough populations to be considered truly secure from the threat of extinction in the long term. Generally, Acadians and French-Canadian speakers understand one another quite easily, despite the fact that there are some minor differences in the type of French they speak. In the case of New Brunswick, this means perfect equality.
Population by Official Languages and Sex, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, 1986 Census – 20% Sample Data," 1986 Census, Catalogue 93–103.Statistics Canada, "Table 1A. New Brunswick and Canada's three territories have all given official status to more than one language. New France developed slowly in Canada, beginning with a population of 13,000 in 1695 and rising to 70,000 by 1763, when it became a British colony. Canadian French, while spoken across an extensive geographic area, and having certain regional differences in vocabulary and pronunciation (Montréal, Québec City, central Québec, Saguenay-Lac Saint-Jean, the Ottawa valley, northern Ontario, etc.
Release date: 2020-08-21 6. 11-402XPE/1997. O'Keefe, Michael, "Francophone Minorities: Assimilation and Community Vitality, second edition", New Canadian Percpectives, Canadian Heritage, (Cat. Today the number of French-speaking people residing in Quebec is over 5.5 million, while the areas west of Quebec, from Ontario to British Columbia, is home to approximately 800,000 francophones. This does not include the large number of native languages that can be heard around the country, particularly in the northernmost reaches of Canada. (Web Version online by SIL International, formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics)Davis, Jeffrey. Ontario is the only province or territory to formally make legal any sign language, enabling the use of American Sign Language, Another trade pidgin that may have become a separate language, In 1890, a private member's bill was tabled in the The initial European settlers to Newfoundland were fishermen from the various coastal villages of the English It was not until the 1700s that social disruptions in Ireland sent thousands of Irish from the southeastern counties of Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, and Cork and to the Avalon peninsula in the eastern part of Newfoundland where significant Irish influence on the Newfoundland dialects may still be heard. The largest populations of foreign speakers, on the other hand, can be found in Ontario (1,934.235); followed by British Columbia (676,911); followed by Quebec (562,860). 3–35.
In Multilingualism and Sign Languages: From the Great Plains to Australia; Sociolinguistics of the Deaf community, C. Lucas (ed. What this means, essentially, is that the public has the right to communicate with, and receive services from, federal government institutions in either English or French and that federal government employees have the option of working in the official language of their choice in designated bilingual regions. Chinese 790,035 (2.6%) 4. For roughly 6.4 million people, the other language was an immigrant language, spoken most often or on a regular basis at home, alone or together with English or French whereas for more than 213,000 people, the other language was an Aboriginal language. The term "immigrant languages" refers to languages (other than English, French and Aboriginal languages) whose presence in Canada is originally due to immigration. Population by Knowledge of Official Languages and Sex, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, 1991 – 20% Sample Data," 1991 Census, Catalogue 93–318.Statistics Canada, "Table 1. Ukrainian 148,090 (0.5%) 9. "A historical linguistic account of sign language among North American Indian groups." no. Italian 170,330 (0.6%) 7. 1. Finally, in 1997, the memorandum of understanding between the Treasury Board Secretariat and Canadian Heritage made all departments accountable in view of official-language minorities. French 6,608,125 (19.1%) 3. Lack of an official orthography, publications in dialect, speaker attrition and official disinterest in promoting the language has been contributing factors towards a decline of speakers of the older, traditional Newfoundland English in the original settlements. After 400 years, much of the dialectal differences between the isolated settlements has leveled out beginning in the 20th century when faster boats (using gas engines instead of oars or sails), and improved road connections provided easier social contact.
Roughly 150,000 have Algonquian as their first language, a language family that includes Cree and Ojibway.