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Languages Spoken in Canada

Official: English and French

Canada has a population of 38.8 million and is one of the most linguistically diverse countries on earth, with 26 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. English and French serve as the official languages. Of the languages spoken in Canada, 19 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

38.8M
Population
26
Languages
19
LEXIGO

Languages spoken in Canada

English Official
English Braille, English alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
87%
CLDR
French Official
French Braille, French alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
29%
CLDR
Spanish
Latin script
LEXIGO translation services →
3%
CLDR
Chinese
Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters
LEXIGO translation services →
3%
CLDR
Punjabi
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
LEXIGO translation services →
3%
CLDR
Arabic
Arabic Braille, Arabic alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
2%
CLDR
Hindi
Devanagari
LEXIGO translation services →
2%
CLDR
Filipino (Tagalog)
Latin script
LEXIGO translation services →
2%
CLDR
Cantonese
Cantonese Braille, Simplified Chinese
2%
CLDR
Italian
Italian Braille, Italian alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
2%
CLDR
German
German Braille, German alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
1%
CLDR
Urdu
Urdu orthography
LEXIGO translation services →
1%
CLDR
Portuguese
Latin script, Portuguese alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
0.9%
CLDR
Russian
Cyrillic script
LEXIGO translation services →
0.8%
CLDR
Tamil
Arabic script, Koleluttu
LEXIGO translation services →
0.7%
CLDR
Vietnamese
Latin script, Vietnamese Braille
LEXIGO translation services →
0.6%
CLDR
Persian (Farsi)
Arabic script, Persian alphabet
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0.6%
CLDR
Gujarati
Gujarati
LEXIGO translation services →
0.6%
CLDR
Polish
Latin script
LEXIGO translation services →
0.6%
CLDR
Korean
Hangul, Hanja
LEXIGO translation services →
0.6%
CLDR
Inuktitut Regional
0.1%
CLDR
Plains Cree Regional
0.0%
CLDR
Chipewyan Regional
0.0%
CLDR
Slave Regional
0.0%
CLDR
Dogrib Regional
0.0%
CLDR
Gwichʼin Regional
0.0%
CLDR
CIA World Factbook

"English (official) 87.1%, French (official) 29.1%, Chinese languages 4.2%, Spanish 3.2%, Punjabi 2.6%, Arabic 2.4%, Tagalog 2.3%, Italian 1.5% (2022 est.)"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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