🇨🇦 What Language Do They Speak in Canada?
The short answer
Canada is officially bilingual: English and French. About 75% speak English as their first official language, while French dominates Quebec and parts of New Brunswick and Ontario — roughly one in five Canadians is a francophone.
Worth knowing
- ●Quebec French has its own accent and vocabulary — 'bonne fête' for happy birthday, 'char' for car
- ●New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province
- ●Over 70 Indigenous languages are spoken, including Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibwe
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