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Language Highlight Tables, Population by language spoken most often and regularly at home, census divisions, 2011 census - English version. Provides information highlights by topic via key indicators for various levels of geography.

Language Highlight Tables, Population by language spoken most often and regularly at home, for Canada, provinces and territories, 2011 census - English version. Provides information highlights by topic via key indicators for various levels of geography.

Language Highlight Tables, Population by language spoken most often and regularly at home, for census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, 2011 census - English version. Provides information highlights by topic via key indicators for various levels of geography.

Language Highlight Tables, Population by language spoken most often and regularly at home, census subdivisions with 5,000+ population, 2011 census - English version. Provides information highlights by topic via key indicators for various levels of geography.

Primary Aboriginal language spoken and self-rated ability to speak primary Aboriginal language, by age group and sex, population aged 6 years and over, Canada, provinces and territories (occasional).

The Index of Continuity measures language continuity, or vitality, by comparing the number of those who speak a given language at home to the number of those who learned the language as their mother tongue. The index has been compiled and mapped for each of the Aboriginal communities shown in the map Aboriginal Languages by Community, 1996. The lower the score, the greater the decline or erosion of language continuity.

First Official Language Spoken (FOLS) is a linguistic concept derived from three census questions on language (knowledge of official languages, mother tongue and home language). Multiple responses are distributed equally among declared languages by different levels of geographies.

Data on the language spoken most often at home by the population of Canada and Canada outside Quebec, and of all provinces and territories, for Census years 1971 to 2016.

The Index of Ability compares the number of people who report being able to speak the language with the number who have that Aboriginal language as a mother tongue. The index has been compiled and mapped for each of the Aboriginal communities shown in the map Aboriginal Languages by Community, 1996. Relatively higher values of this index may suggest some degree of language revival.

Primary Aboriginal language understood and self-rated ability to understand primary Aboriginal language, by age group and sex, population aged 6 years and over, Canada, provinces and territories (occasional).