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List of languages by number of "foreign learners"
Please, Hispanic Fanatic. I know that you have a grave psychological problem, and your mental capabilities are very bad without taking a huge amount of COCAINE and MARIJUANA raised in hispanic countries, but when you write websites about French, Spanish, the weather or the Pope, they should be SERIOUS WEBSITES (important newspapers and magazines).
PD. I know that you hate the format of your NON-SENSE posts to be copied and to eat HYENA FECES. So, the best way to a ABNORMAL life is to go to your Hispanic doctor and to get more COCAINE and MARIJUANA raised in hispanic countries like yours:)
Chinese reaffirmed as Canada's third most common mother tongue
The 2001 Census reaffirmed the position of Chinese as Canada's third most common mother tongue.
Almost 872,400 people reported Chinese as their mother tongue, up 136,400 or 18.5% from 1996. They accounted for 2.9% of the total population of Canada, up from 2.6% five years earlier. Italian remained in fourth place, and German fifth, although their numbers declined. Punjabi moved into sixth, and SPANISH slipped to seventh.
Language groups from European countries still made up the majority of the allophone population. However, the population of these groups is much older, and therefore, their numbers continued to decline.
Allophone groups from Asian and Middle Eastern countries recorded the largest increases in numbers. In addition to Chinese, the language groups which reported the largest gains in numbers since the 1996 Census were Punjabi, whose numbers increased by 70,200, or 32.7%; Arabic, which increased by 54,400, or 32.7%; Urdu, which rose by 43,100, to almost double its 1996 level; and Tagalog, up 41,600 or 26.3%.
Chinese reaffirmed as Canada's third most common mother tongue
The 2001 Census reaffirmed the position of Chinese as Canada's third most common mother tongue.
Almost 872,400 people reported Chinese as their mother tongue, up 136,400 or 18.5% from 1996. They accounted for 2.9% of the total population of Canada, up from 2.6% five years earlier. Italian remained in fourth place, and German fifth, although their numbers declined. Punjabi moved into sixth, and Spanish slipped to seventh.
Language groups from European countries still made up the majority of the allophone population. However, the population of these groups is much older, and therefore, their numbers continued to decline.
Allophone groups from Asian and Middle Eastern countries recorded the largest increases in numbers. In addition to Chinese, the language groups which reported the largest gains in numbers since the 1996 Census were Punjabi, whose numbers increased by 70,200, or 32.7%; Arabic, which increased by 54,400, or 32.7%; Urdu, which rose by 43,100, to almost double its 1996 level; and Tagalog, up 41,600 or 26.3%.
http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t12272-15.htm
All languages increase in Canada excluding French. Good news.
Hi, Fanatic French. Your data are always from the past. In 2006, Spanish is already third language of the country.
In all other countries of the Americas, Spanish is first or second language of the country. So, it shows the strengh of this language in comparison with your data from 2001. Now, it will be spoken, probably, by over 1 million.
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89189&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=705&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837928
English 26,578,795
French 9,590,700
Spanish 758,280
Italian 660,945
German 622,650
PD. I remember you that Chinese is a lot of languages. You can see in this web, Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Yue, etc
Arizona Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:59 pm GMT
Hi, Fanatic French. Your data are always from the past. In 2006, Spanish is already third language of the country.
In all other countries of the Americas, Spanish is first or second language of the country. So, it shows the strengh of this language in comparison with your data from 2001. Now, it will be spoken, probably, by over 1 million.
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89189&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=705&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837928
English 26,578,795
French 9,590,700
Spanish 758,280
Italian 660,945
German 622,650
PD. I remember you that Chinese is a lot of languages. You can see in this web, Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Yue, etc
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They are all dialects of Chinese.
Mandarin Chinese is the standard.
Chinese is a macro language just like Arabic.
Don't forget that just because a lot of people learn Punjabi or something doesn't mean it's important. The only reason for that is that there are lots of Punjabi immigrants in Anglophone countries and their children take classes as 'heritage speakers'. The number of Anglos who learn Punjabi is probably near zero.
Hi, Hispanic Fanatic. Your data are always full of discrepancies. In 2006, Spanish is behind Punjabi in Canada.
In all other countries of the Americas, Spanish is not the second language of the country. So, it shows the weakness of this language in comparison with your data. Now, it will be never be spoken by over 1 million because languages in Canada apart from English and French are set to decline.
A multitude of languages are spoken in Canada. According to the 2006 census, English and French are the preferred language ("home language", or language spoken most often in the home) of 67.1% and 21.5% of the population, respectively. English and French are recognized by the Constitution of Canada as "official languages," which means that all laws of the federal government are enacted in both English and French and that federal government services are required to be available in both languages.
The five most widely-spoken non-official languages are Chinese (the home language of 2.6% of Canadians), Punjabi (0.8%), Spanish (0.7%), Italian (0.6%), and Arabic (0.5%). Aboriginal languages, many of which are unique to Canada, are spoken by less than one percent of the population, and are mostly in decline.
The problem with listing non-official languages like Chinese or Spanish in Canada, is that they are almost exclusively used by immigrants, and often, but not always, by their children. The children and grandchildren will end up speaking English or French. Very few of the third generation in open societies like Canada and the U.S. can fluently speak their grandparents' language. English and French will continue to be spoken by subsequent generations.
Having said that, back to the topic. (Why do antimooners insist on morphing into a different topic and starting flame wars, every chance they can??) If you are talking about "foreign learners," then yes, Spanish and Chinese appear to be on the rise.
Can someone confirm the data?
These figures can only be accurate up to a certain point. I learn certain languages, but I don't always publish the fact that I am learning them. How can these statistics be correct when nobody truly knows how many people there are learning a certain language?
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