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Language by Mother Tongue in Calgary
You’ll hear many languages spoken on Calgary streets: there are close to 120 spoken in the city.
In fact, the mother tongue of one in five Calgarians – more than 240,000 people – is neither one of Canada’s two official languages, English or French.
Close to 56,000 Calgarians speak a dialect of Chinese as their first language, and increasingly, you’ll hear the languages of Eastern Europe and other regions of Asia.
| Diversity - Language by Mother Tongue Calgary Census Metropolitan Area |
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| Total Population | 1,070,295 |
| Single Responses | 1,056,760 |
| English | 797,555 |
| French | 16,310 |
| Non-official languages | 242,895 |
| Chinese | 54,275 |
| Cantonese | 18,520 |
| Mandarin | 7,775 |
| Hakka | 110 |
| Chinese, n.o.s. | 27,355 |
| Italian | 5,670 |
| German | 14,885 |
| Polish | 8,420 |
| Spanish | 14,515 |
| Portuguese | 2,365 |
| Punjabi | 21,185 |
| Ukrainian | 3,845 |
| Arabic | 9,600 |
| Dutch | 4,770 |
| Tagalog (Pilipino) | 14,790 |
| Greek | 1,580 |
| Vietnamese | 10,890 |
| Cree | 285 |
| Inuktitut (Eskimo) | 55 |
| Other non-official languages |
75,765 |
| Multiple responses | 13,535 |
| English and French | 1,845 |
| English and non-official language |
10,920 |
| French and non-official language |
600 |
| English, French and non- official language |
165 |
Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census
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