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...

1969 Official Languages Act, both English and French are recognized as official languages in Canada and granted equal status by the Canadian government....

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...

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

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

manner of'), 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

requires the use of multiple terms in order to describe the languages which people speak. Francophone Speaking French as a first language. Anglophone Speaking...

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

Regional or Minority Languages, which the UK Government has ratified, and the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 established a language-development body...

is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...

is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Union. It is also the official language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union...

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

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...

both official languages of Canada (English and French). The effects of any judicial decision on the common law, on the interpretation of statutes, or on...

sole official language of Greenland. Greenlandic belongs to the Eskimo–Aleut languages; it is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada, such as Inuktitut...

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

Northwest Coast cultural area (Penutian languages, Tsimshianic languages and Wakashan languages) Across Canada, 56% of Indigenous peoples live in urban areas...

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

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

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

with other Inuit languages of Canada and Greenland. There are roughly 2,000 speakers. Iñupiaq is considered to be a threatened language, with most speakers...

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

law in the province of Quebec in Canada defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government...