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Aboriginal languages in Canada : Langues autochtones au Canada : langue, Recensement de la population de 2011

5 Sep 2008

Inuit and Athapaskan languages also frequently reported The Inuit and the Athapaskan languages were the second (35,500) and third (20,700) language families with the largest populations in 2011. [...] Cree languages, Inuktitut and Ojibway are the most frequently reported Aboriginal languages Despite the diversity of Aboriginal languages in Canada, three of them (the Cree languages, Inuktitut and Ojibway) accounted for almost two-thirds of the population having an Aboriginal language as mother tongue. [...] About one in five people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue live in Quebec In 2011, of all people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue in Canada, the highest proportions lived in Quebec (20.9%), Manitoba (17.7%) and Saskatchewan (16.0%) (Figure 1). [...] Majority of people who reported an Aboriginal mother tongue speak it at home Among the population reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue, 82.2% also reported speaking it at home: 58.1% spoke it most often and 24.1% spoke it on a regular basis, in addition to the language they speak most often. [...] Most other Aboriginal mother tongues not the main home language Among the 50 or so other Aboriginal languages,5 most of them were spoken at home by between 30% and 60% of the people who reported them as mother tongues.
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Authors

Langlois, Stéphanie

Pages
10
Published in
Canada

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