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[nb 3] Since the establishment of the Canadian state, English and French have been the co-official languages and are, by far, the most-spoken languages in the country. According to the 2016 census, English and French are the mother tongues of 56.0% and 21.4% of Canadians respectively. [4]
Canada's fertility rate hit a record low of 1.4 children born per woman in 2020, [30] below the population replacement level, which stands at 2.1 births per woman. In 2020, Canada also experienced the country's lowest number of births in 15 years, [ 30 ] also seeing the largest annual drop in childbirths (−3.6%) in a quarter of a century. [ 30 ]
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Canada: 96 99 195 2.74 33,362,312 174,672 260
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...
By the 1969 Official Languages Act, both English and French are recognized as official languages in Canada and granted equal status by the Canadian government. [5] While French, with no specification as to dialect or variety, has the status of one of Canada's two official languages at the federal government level , English is the native ...
The Italian language in Canada has been widespread since the 19th century, particularly due to Italian emigration.According to the 2021 Census of Canada, 1,546,390 Canadians (4.3% of the total population) claimed full or partial Italian ancestry, [1] and Italian is the ninth most widely spoken language in Canada with 547,655 speakers, as well as 319,505 mother tongue speakers. [2]
Overall, First Nations Canada English dialects rest between language loss and language revitalization. British Columbia has the greatest linguistic diversity, as it is home to about half of the Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. Most of the languages spoken in the province are endangered due to the small number of speakers.
The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.