CA-K124Language & names

More than 70 Indigenous languages are spoken in Canada

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More than 70 distinct Indigenous languages are spoken in Canada, and Cree languages and Inuktitut are the main ones. In the 2021 Census, 189,000 people reported at least one Indigenous mother tongue.

Scope & context

Census counts of Indigenous languages, not the health of individual languages or revitalization efforts.

Sources behind this record

While English and French are still the main languages spoken in Canada, the country's linguistic diversity continues to grow ↗

Statistics Canada (The Daily)

2021 Census of Population release, 17 August 2022