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    There are between 56 and 70 indigenous languages currently spoken in Canada that developed over thousands of years. The major language families include Algonquian, Iroquoian, Na-Dene, Salishan, Penutians, Wakashan, and Eskimo-Aleut. The Algonquian family contains nearly 30 languages with over 130,000 total speakers, about half spoken in Quebec and the rest in Ontario and Eastern Canada. The Iroquoian family comprises around 10 languages with 45,000 total speakers mostly in Ontario and Quebec. The Na-Dene family includes over 50 languages divided into Haida, Athabascan, and Tlingit groups.

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    There are between 56 and 70 indigenous languages currently spoken in Canada that developed over thousands of years. The major language families include Algonquian, Iroquoian, Na-Dene, Salishan, Penutians, Wakashan, and Eskimo-Aleut. The Algonquian family contains nearly 30 languages with over 130,000 total speakers, about half spoken in Quebec and the rest in Ontario and Eastern Canada. The Iroquoian family comprises around 10 languages with 45,000 total speakers mostly in Ontario and Quebec. The Na-Dene family includes over 50 languages divided into Haida, Athabascan, and Tlingit groups.

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    Ian Language in Canada

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    There are between 56 and 70 indigenous languages currently spoken in Canada that developed over thousands of years. The major language families include Algonquian, Iroquoian, Na-Dene, Salishan, Penutians, Wakashan, and Eskimo-Aleut. The Algonquian family contains nearly 30 languages with over 130,000 total speakers, about half spoken in Quebec and the rest in Ontario and Eastern Canada. The Iroquoian family comprises around 10 languages with 45,000 total speakers mostly in Ontario and Quebec. The Na-Dene family includes over 50 languages divided into Haida, Athabascan, and Tlingit groups.

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    Amerindian Language in Canada

    Present by Yanwen Zhang 301105474 Chuanwen Liu()

    Native Peoples and Languages

    oldest languages in the world - back thousands of years. between 56 and 70 aboriginal languages in Canada.

    Major Language Family


    Algonquian Iroquoian Na-Dene(Athapaskan) Salishan Penutians Wakashane Eskimo-Aleut

    The Algonquian Family

    There are nearly thirty languages in the Algonquian family (130,000 speakers), about half of them spoken by natives in Quebec. The other languages are spoken mostly in Ontario and in the East.

    The Iroquoian Family

    The Iroquo ian Family comprises roughly ten languages (45,000 speakers), mostly from Ontario but also from Quebec (Mohawk and Huron). The Hurons mother tongue is usually French.

    The Na-Dene Family

    The Na-Dene family includes nearly fifty languages divided into three main groups: Haida, Athabascan, and Tlingit. There is only one language in the Tlingit group: Tlingit.

    The Eskimo-Aleut Family

    The Eskimo-Aleut family includes two groups (Aleut and Eskimo) Inuit dialects that includes Inuttut in Eastern Labrador, Inuttitut of South Baffin Island, Inuktitut of North Baffin Island, and Aivilik and Kivalliq of the Keewatin region (Ontario).

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