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Swahili - There are 13,370 Canadians who speak Swahili (a language mostly spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) as a mother tongue.

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Akan (Twi) - There are 13,455 Canadians who speak Akan (Twi), the most common language of the Akan people from Ghana.

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Yiddish - There are 13,555 Canadians who speak Yiddish as their first language.

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Telugu - There are 15,655 Canadians who speak Telugu, a language most common in Andhra Pradesh, India, as their first language.

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Assyrian - There are 16,070 Canadians who speak Assyrian, an ancient language spoken in what is now northern Iraq, Syria, Iran, and southern Turkey.

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Sinhala (Sinhalese) - There are 16,335 Canadians who speak Sinhala (Sinhalese), the most common language in Sri Lanka, as their first language.

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Tigrigna - There are 16,650 Canadians who speak Tigrigna, spoken mostly in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, as their first language.

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Macedonian - There are 16,775 Canadians who speak Macedonian as their first language.

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Pashto - There are 16,910 Canadians who speak Pashto, one of Afghanistan's official languages and Pakistan's second most-spoken language, as a mother tongue.

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Athabaskan languages - There are 17,365 Canadians who speak an Athabaskan language (a grouping of 32 Indigenous languages spoken in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, northern British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba in Canada, as well as Alaska) as a mother tongue.

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Slovak - There are 17,580 Canadians who speak Slovak as their first language.

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Ojibway - There are 17,580 Canadians who speak Ojibway as their first language. 

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Nepali - There are 18,275 Canadians who speak Nepali as their first language.

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Hebrew - There are 19,530 Canadians who speak Hebrew as their first language.

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Cebuano - There are 19,890 Canadians who speak Cebuano, a language spoken mostly in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines, as a mother tongue.

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Bulgarian - There are 20,025 Canadians who speak Bulgarian as their first language.

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Khmer (Cambodian) - There are 20,130 Canadians who speak Khmer (Cambodian) as their first language.

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Czech - There are 22,290 Canadians who speak Czech as their first language.

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Amharic - There are 22,465 Canadians who speak Amharic, the official working language of Ethiopia, as their first language.

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Ilocano - There are 26,345 Canadians who speak Ilocano, the third-most spoken language in the Philippines, as a mother tongue.

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Albanian - There are 26,890 Canadians who speak Albanian as their first language.

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Malayalam - There are 28,570 Canadians who speak Malayalam, a language spoken mainly in Kerala, India, as a mother tongue.

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Min Nan - There are 31,795 Canadians who speak Min Nan (a language mainly spoken in Taiwan, some states in China, and throughout Southeast Asia) as a mother tongue.

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Turkish - There are 32,815 Canadians who speak Turkish as their first language.

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Armenian - There are 33,455 Canadians who speak Armenian as their first language.

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Inuktitut - There are 35,215 Canadians who speak Inuktitut as their first language.

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Inuit languages - There are 36,545 Canadians who speak an Inuit language as their first language.

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Somali - There are 36,755 Canadians who speak Somali as their first language.

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Chinese, not otherwise specified - There are 38,580 Canadians who speak a non-specified Chinese language as a mother tongue.

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Japanese - There are 43,640 Canadians who speak Japanese as their first language.

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Croatian - There are 48,200 Canadians who speak Croatian as their first language.

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Serbian - There are 57,350 Canadians who speak Serbian as their first language.

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Cree - There are 64,050 Canadians who speak a Cree language as their mother tongue.

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Creole - There are 64,105 Canadians who speak a Creole language as their mother tongue.

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Bengali - There are 73,125 Canadians who speak Bengali as their first language.

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Romanian - There are 96,665 Canadians who speak Romanian as their first language.

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Dutch - There are 99,020 Canadians who speak Dutch as their first language.

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Ukrainian - There are 102,485 Canadians who speak Ukrainian as their first language.

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Greek - There are 106,525 Canadians who speak Greek as their first language.

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Gujarati - There are 108,780 Canadians who speak Gujarati, spoken largely in Gujarat, India, as their first language.

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Hindi - There are 110,640 Canadians who speak Hindi as their first language.

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Algonquian languages - There are 130,450 Canadians who speak an Algonquian language as their first language. 

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Tamil - There are 140,720 Canadians who speak Tamil as their first language.

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Korean - There are 153,425 Canadians who speak Korean as their first language.

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Vietnamese - There are 156,425 Canadians who speak Vietnamese as their first language.

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Polish - There are 181,710 Canadians who speak Polish as their first language.

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Russian - There are 188,255 Canadians who speak Russian as their first language.

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Urdu - There are 181,710 Canadians who speak Urdu, the adopted common language or lingua franca of Pakistan and a common language in some Indian states, as their mother tongue.

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Farsi - There are 214,200 Canadians who speak Farsi as their first language.

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Portuguese - There are 221,540 Canadians who speak Portuguese as their first language.

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Italian - There are 375,635 Canadians who speak Italian as their first language.

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German - There are 384,035 Canadians who speak German as their first language.

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Arabic - There are 419,890 Canadians who speak Arabic as their first language.

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Tagalog - There are 431,380 Canadians who speak Tagalog, the most spoken language in the Philippines, as their mother tongue.

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Spanish - There are 458,850 Canadians who speak Spanish as their first language.

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Punjabi - There are 501,680 Canadians who speak Punjabi as their first language.

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Cantonese - There are 565,270 Canadians who speak Cantonese as their first language.

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Mandarin - There are 592,040 Canadians who speak Mandarin as their first language.

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French - Now on to Canada's official languages. There are 7,166,705 Canadians who speak French as their first language.

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English - Finally, there are 19,460,850 Canadians who speak English as their first language.

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