English and French in Canada

English and French are the most talked languages in Canada. The 75% of the population speak in English ( 24,8 millions of people) and the 23% of the population speak in French (7,7 millions of people).

English is estimately the mother tongue of 58% of Canadians (19,1 millions of people), and the 22% of the population used to have French language as mother tongue (7, 2 millions of people).

Most of the French speakers live in Quebec.  According to the language talked at home, the 66% of  the Canadians use English and the rest 21% use French as usual language.

The 17,5% of the population speak English and French ( 5,8millions of people) and bilingualism has increased since 2006.The increase of bilingualism comes from the Quebecers who make sure that they can have a conversation in English and French at the same time. Quebec has contributed the 90% of the bilingual people’s increase in Canada between 2006 and 2011. 

In Canada the population use more than 200 languages to communicate.

The ten most used languages in Canada are:

• Punyabí: 1,3% (430.705 people)
• Chinease: 1,28% (425.210 people)
• Spanish: 1,24% (410.670 people)
• German: 1,23% (409.200 people)
• Italian: 1,23% (407.485 people)
• Cantonese: 1,12% (372.460 people)
• Arabic: 0,98% (327.870 people)
• Mandarin: 0,75% (248.705 people)
• Portuguese: 0,63% (211.335 people)
• Polish: 0,57% (191.645 people)

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