Top 10 non-official languages spoken at home by children and youth under age 25 years, Canada, 2006
Adapted from Statistics Canada, at http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=
3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=89273&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=
0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= accessed on November 28, 2011
On the 2006 Census, about 1.1 million children and youth under 25 reported speaking a non-official language in the home, either solely or in combination with English and/or French. Ordered by popularity of use, the four non-official languages most often spoken at home by children and youth across Canada were Panjabi, Chinese, Spanish and Cantonese.
The popularity of non-official languages was different from province-to-province and across territories.