Ontario
Canada, province, population 16,124,116, first language English.
Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · CA-ON · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet
Language stack
The roles this state's languages play, with a share where a census gives one.
How this is measured
Labels from the States sheet; no census share yet.
Official-language count: 2. Diversity below is country-level.
Language spoken at home
Share of residents by the language they speak at home, 2021. Not what they can speak: most also speak the main language.
How this is measured
Same survey: 97.3% can hold a conversation in English; 11.1% can hold a conversation in French.
Languages of Canada
Country-level shares: CLDR, with a census or survey where CLDR has none. They overlap and are never normalised.
How this is measured
Largest 12 of 208 languages CLDR records for Canada.
How far lingua francas reach
Share able to hold a conversation, first or second language.
How this is measured
Other states in Canada12
All states · Countries · Reach
Where these numbers come from
- Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
- Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
- Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
- States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
- Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
- Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).
Labels are the States sheet's. Shares marked country-level are CLDR's for the whole country, not a measurement of this state. See Method.