Table 2 
Speakers of selected non-official languages by immigrant status, Canada, 2021  

Speakers of selected non-official languages by immigrant status, Canada, 2021
  Non-immigrants Immigrants Non-permanent residents
  proportion of speakers (%)proportion of speakers (%)proportion of speakers (%)
Greek 55.2 43.7 1.1
Italian 52.7 45.7 1.6
German 46.9 50.3 2.8
Spanish 44.7 46.9 8.4
Ukrainian 44.2 52.0 3.8
Hebrew 38.1 58.1 3.8
Portuguese 32.2 57.4 10.4
Polish 29.4 69.6 1.1
Yue (Cantonese) 25.5 72.2 2.3
Tamil 25.4 67.8 6.7
Punjabi (Panjabi) 24.9 59.1 16.0
Vietnamese 24.2 68.8 7.0
Urdu 23.5 73.1 3.4
Arabic 21.5 72.5 6.0
Bengali 19.0 71.3 9.7
Romanian 17.0 81.8 1.2
Russian 16.7 78.8 4.5
Korean 16.7 68.9 14.4
Mandarin 16.0 73.6 10.4
Gujarati 15.6 69.8 14.6
Iranian Persian 11.8 76.3 12.0
Hindi 8.0 71.9 20.1
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 6.5 89.2 4.2
Source(s):
Census of Population (3901).
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