INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL ENGLISH 22,162,865 63.75% FRENCH 6,943,800 19.97% NON-OFFICIAL LANGUAGES 3,997,200 11.50% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES 137,515 0.40% TOTAL 34,767,255 FOR ALL OF CANADA INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES 89,795 0.26% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Blackfoot 1,855 0.01% • Cree-Montagnais languages 64,825 0.19% • Atikamekw 5,810 0.02% • Montagnais (Innu) 9,500 0.03% • Moose Cree 50 0.00% • Naskapi 1,215 0.00% • Northern East Cree 210 0.00% • Plains Cree 2,165 0.01% • Southern East Cree 30 0.00% • Swampy Cree 915 0.00% • Woods Cree 1,110 0.00% • Cree, n.o.s. 43,830 0.13% • Eastern Algonquian languages 4,340 0.01% • Malecite 110 0.00% • Mi’kmaq 4,225 0.01% • Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 18,760 0.05% • Algonquin 840 0.00% • Ojibway 9,005 0.03% • Oji-Cree 8,800 0.03% • Ottawa (Odawa) 120 0.00% • Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 20 0.00% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL ATHABASKAN LANGUAGES 11,640 0.03% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Northern Athabaskan languages 11,615 0.03% • Babine (Wetsuwet’en) 40 0.00% • Beaver 85 0.00% • Carrier 475 0.00% • Chilcotin 385 0.00% • Dene 8,315 0.02% • Dogrib (Tlicho) 1,135 0.00% • Gwich’in 65 0.00% • Sarsi (Sarcee) 15 0.00% • Sekani 20 0.00% • Slavey-Hare languages 955 0.00% • North Slavey (Hare) 405 0.00% • South Slavey 430 0.00% • Slavey, n.o.s. 125 0.00% • Tahltan languages 65 0.00% • Kaska (Nahani) 45 0.00% • Tahltan 20 0.00% • Tutchone languages 60 0.00% • Northern Tutchone 45 0.00% • Southern Tutchone 15 0.00% • Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 20 0.00% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL HAIDA 35 0.00% INUIT LANGUAGES 30,610 0.09% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Inuinnaqtun 150 0.00% • Inuktitut 30,240 0.09% • Inuvialuktun 65 0.00% • Inuit languages, n.i.e. 145 0.00% IROQUOIAN LANGUAGES 680 0.00% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Cayuga 35 0.00% • Mohawk 570 0.00% • Oneida 55 0.00% • Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 15 0.00% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL KUTENAI 25 0.00% MICHIF 275 0.00% SALISH LANGUAGES 700 0.00% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Comox 5 0.00% • Halkomelem 105 0.00% • Lillooet 60 0.00% • Okanagan 155 0.00% • Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 210 0.00% • Squamish 15 0.00% • Straits 45 0.00% • Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 50 0.00% • Salish languages, n.i.e. 65 0.00% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL SIOUAN LANGUAGES 2,545 0.01% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Dakota 360 0.00% • Stoney 2,150 0.01% • Siouan languages, n.i.e. 35 0.00% TLINGIT 10 0.00% TSIMSHIAN LANGUAGES 605 0.00% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Gitxsan (Gitksan) 430 0.00% • Nisga’a 115 0.00% • Tsimshian 60 0.00% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LIST OF LANGUAGES LANGUAGE SPOKEN MOST OFTEN AT HOME NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL WAKASHAN LANGUAGES 240 0.00% NUMBER OF SPEAKERS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL • Haisla 70 0.00% • Heiltsuk 10 0.00% • Kwakiutl (Kwak’wala) 75 0.00% • Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 80 0.00% • Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 5 0.00% INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, 360 0.00% N.O.S. Source: Statistics Canada. 2017. Language Highlight Tables. 2016 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-402-X2016005. Ottawa. Released August 2, 2017. http://www12.statcan. gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/lang/index-eng.cfm (accessed August 14, 2018) .