Twenty percent of Canada’s population, o halos 6,630,000 mga tao, speaks a language other than English or French at home, ayon sa a recent report from Statistics Canada.

The most widely spoken languages include Mandarin, Cantonese, at iba pang mga Chinese dialects, pati na rin Punjabi, Espanyol, Tagalog, Arabe, Italiyano, Urdu, at German.

58% of the population (19,225,000 mga tao) nagsasalita lamang ang Ingles sa bahay, habang 18.2%, o 6,043,000, nagsasalita lamang Pranses.

The vast majority — 9 out of 10 Canadians — 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.

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

Sa Estados Unidos, halos 20 percent of the population also speaks a language other than English at home. Gayunman, that language is most likely to be Spanish. Sa US, 35 million people speak Spanish as their home language — more than the entire population of Canada!

Maaari mong basahin ang buong Statistics Canada ulat dito.

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