Official languages ​​of Canada

Formerly, Canada inherited a huge territorio where they sat estate two of the societies most important linguistics in the world: the speech community Englishwoman and the one speaking French

At present, official languages are English (which has more than 25 million Canadians who are proficient in the language), the French (language of nearly 7 million Canadians), various aboriginal languages in the Northwest Territories and the inuktitut is official language in Nunavut. Despite this, all provinces have communities whose main language is none of the official ones.

La población of the country It is mostly monolingual, as only 18% of Canadians can speak both English and French fluently.

For this reason, a Law on the Official Languages ​​of Canada was adopted, by means of which, the Federal Governmenthe Canadian has implemented a number of initiatives that testify to his firm belief in promoting French and English in Canadian society.

The Law does not require citizens to speak both languages, but exclusively encourages the government. The Law it also requires certain service establishments (such as public health or safety) to offer their services in both French and English, to allow citizens to choose the way they communicate.
As for all languages, their distribution is as follows:

- English (90%)
- French (60%)
- Bilingual (0,4%)
- Chinese (2,9%)
- Spanish (1,62%)
- Italian (1,6%)
- German (1,5%)