ECTACO Info | Canada's Language Map Looks Way Different Without English Or French
Take English and French out of Canada, and you have a very different-looking country. Data visualizers at The 10 and 3 have done just that, producing an interactive map that shows which tongues are spoken most often at home besides the country's official languages. They came up with the map by separating the country into "census divisions." They then discerned a language's popularity by looking at the number of people who speak it at home within those regions. For much of the country, the tongue most spoken at home is any number of traditional indigenous languages, such as Inuktitut, Cree, Dene and Ojibway. This is particularly true in regions including Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Manitoba, northern Ontario, Quebec and Labrador. But though you might assume that's the case in vast swaths of northern Canada, what you'll actually find is that Tagalog and Arabic are among the most prominent languages spoken in the home in those parts. Th...
