Twenty percent of Canada’s population, o quasi 6,630,000 persone, speaks a language other than English or French at home, secondo a recent report from Statistics Canada.

The most widely spoken languages include Mandarin, Cantonese, e altri dialetti cinesi, nonché Punjabi, Spagnolo, Tagalog, Arabo, Italiano, Urdu, e tedesco.

58% of the population (19,225,000 persone) parla solo inglese a casa propria, mentre 18.2%, o 6,043,000, parla solo francese.

The vast majority — 9 out of 10 I canadesi — who speak a language other than English live in one of the country’s major cities, with most concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa–Gatineau.

A Toronto e Vancouver, Chinese and Indian languages predominate, while Montreal and Ottawa have large concentrations of Arabic and Spanish speakers. Punjabi, Tagalog, and Chinese are widely spoken in Calgary and Edmonton.

Negli Stati Uniti, approssimativamente 20 percent of the population also speaks a language other than English at home. Tuttavia, that language is most likely to be Spanish. Negli Stati Uniti, 35 million people speak Spanish as their home language — more than the entire population of Canada!

È possibile leggere l'intero rapporto di Statistics Canada qui.

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