Indigenous Language Families in Canada: Reports of the 2021 Census of Population

Algonquian languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025002-eng.htm

Athabaskan languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025003-eng.htm

Inuktut (Inuit) languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025004-eng.htm

Iroquoian languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025005-eng.htm

Isolates and other Indigenous languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025008-eng.htm

Salish languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025007-eng.htm

Siouan languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025006-eng.htm

Tsimshian languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025009-eng.htm

Wakashan languages

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/41-20-0002/412000022025010-eng.htm

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