Adapted from Statistics Canada, The Aboriginal languages of First Nations people, Metis and Inuit, page 2, 2016. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Aboriginal language speakers in Canada, by language family 2016
This statistic shows the number of Aboriginal language speakers within each Aboriginal language family in Canada in 2016. There were 5,400 speakers of languages in the Siouan language family in Canada in 2016.
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