were home to over 70 distinct languages across 12 or so language families. Today, a majority of those indigenous languages are still spoken; however, most...

government of Canada. This makes them "official" languages, having preferred status in law over all other languages. Although the Official Languages Act is...

official languages of Canada are English and French, which "have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the...

Canadian census. Under the 1969 Official Languages Act, French is recognized as an official language of Canada alongside English and both have equal status...

The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent...

top languages spoken as a home language in Canada, shown as a percentage of total single responses. Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census Profile of Federal...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

northeastern mainland of the province. Scottish Gaelic is a member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages and the Canadian dialects have their origins...

some languages having only a few elderly speakers remaining. The two languages with the most speakers, Mohawk (Kenien'kéha) in New York and Canada, and...

both languages. Two of Canada's territories give official status to indigenous languages. In Nunavut, Inuktitut, and Inuinnaqtun are official languages, alongside...

also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the North American tree...

languages are isolated by considerable distance from both the Pacific Coast languages and the Northern languages. Reflecting an ancient migration of peoples...

creole in which LSF is the superstrate language and the native village sign languages are substrate languages.: 493  However, more recent research has...

Canada. A multitude of languages are used by Canadians, with English and French (the official languages) being the mother tongues of approximately 54 percent...

Rights and Interests of Inuit in Canada, unlike provincial and territorial languages commissioners, "the national indigenous languages commissioner will...

Canada French language in Canada Association québécoise de linguistique History of French Languages of Canada Quebec French lexicon French language in...

the Athabaskan languages, include the languages of central and eastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, as well as the Apachean languages of the Southwestern...

Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories...

Central languages are more closely related to each other than to the other Algonquian languages. The most general Indigenous designation for the language is...

like all Canadian aboriginal languages, is endangered due to social factors alone. Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger...

first language. Of these, 8,098,355 gave singular responses. The languages most commonly reported were the following: Numerous other languages were also...

roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population. There are over 600 recognized First Nations governments or bands with distinctive cultures, languages, art, and...

Official Languages Act, RSNWT 1988, c. O-1, s. 4 in its 2003 version; PWNHC: Official Languages of the Northwest Territories "Consolidation of (S.Nu. 2008...

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...

language groups and numerous other linguistic minorities, in Canada official languages policy has always been an important and high-profile area of public...

endangered languages in North America List of endangered languages in Canada List of endangered languages in Mexico List of endangered languages in the United...

Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the...

mission is to promote an appreciation of all of the languages used in Canada, and of their role in the development of the country. The museum was established...

lyrics for "O Canada" in Canada's two official languages, English and French. However, the two sets of lyrics are not translations of each other. The...

française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French...