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Sri Lankan Canadians refers to people from Sri Lanka who have arrived and settled in Canada. Among these immigrants include members from the Tamil, Moor, Malay, Sinhalese and Burgher ethnicities. According to the 2021 census there are 136,240 Sri Lankan-born persons in Canada. [2]
Malvern is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a population of 44,315. [2] It is located in the northeast corner of the city. There are over 60 different cultures represented in Malvern, with the most dominant ethnic groups being Caribbean Canadians (mostly Jamaican, Trinidadian, and Guyanese) and South Asian Canadians (mostly Sri Lankan Tamil, Indian, and Pakistani).
A map of Toronto's Census Metropolitan Area, which contains a large portion of the GTA Toronto is the central city of the Greater Toronto Area. Mississauga is the largest city in Peel Region and the second-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area. Brampton, also in Peel Region, is the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area.
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia.Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest-growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, forming approximately 20.2 percent of the Canadian population as of 2021, making up the majority of Canada’s visible minority population.
The 1996 Canadian census stated that the second largest language group in the Toronto area was people who spoke Chinese. [25] As of the 1997 Chinese Consumer Directory of Toronto there were 97 computer and software businesses, 20 interpreters and translators, 19 sign makers, and eight paging services. Luk wrote that the figures from the ...
Most Bugis people speak a distinct regional language called Bugis (Basa Ugi) in addition to Indonesian. The Bugis language belongs to the South Sulawesi language group; other members include Makassarese, Torajan, Mandarese [12] and Massenrempulu. The name Bugis is an exonym which represents an older form of the name; (To) Ugi is the endonym. [13]
The following is a list of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language.While those countries or territories that designate any variety of Chinese as an official language, as the term "Chinese" is considered a group of related language varieties rather than a homogeneous language, of which many are not mutually intelligible, in the context of the spoken language such ...
Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named "Indonesian"), [4] Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog (standardized as Filipino [5]), Malagasy and Cebuano. According to some estimates, the family contains 1,257 languages, which is the second most of any language family.