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Languages Spoken in Waterloo Region
There are many languages spoken in the Waterloo Region area. The following are the top languages spoken here.
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Language Spoken |
Number of People |
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1 |
English |
439,580 |
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2 |
French |
30,560 |
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3 |
German |
19,110 |
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4 |
Portuguese |
13,365 |
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5 |
Spanish |
10,640 |
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6 |
Polish |
6,430 |
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7 |
Serbian |
5,405 |
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8 |
Romanian |
5,345 |
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9 |
Chinese |
4,710 |
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10 |
Arabic |
4,685 |
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11 |
Panjabi (Punjabi) |
4,440 |
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12 |
Vietnamese |
3,935 |
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13 |
Hindi |
3,815 |
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14 |
Italian |
3,330 |
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15 |
Croatian |
3,245 |
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16 |
Urdu |
3,150 |
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17 |
Persian (Farsi) |
2,980 |
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18 |
Dutch |
2,745 |
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19 |
Hungarian |
2,260 |
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20 |
Greek |
2,075 |
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21 |
Russian |
1,995 |
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22 |
Mandarin |
1,915 |
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23 |
Cantonese |
1,895 |
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24 |
Gujarati |
1,615 |
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25 |
Korean |
1,515 |
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26 |
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) |
1,370 |
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27 |
Lao |
1,300 |
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28 |
Ukrainian |
1,110 |
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29 |
Czech |
955 |
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30 |
Tamil |
820 |
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31 |
Bosnian |
815 |
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32 |
Turkish |
800 |
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33 |
Pashto |
795 |
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34 |
Serbo-Croatian |
745 |
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35 |
Slovak |
695 |
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36 |
Slavic languages |
680 |
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37 |
Amharic |
625 |
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38 |
Japanese |
600 |
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39 |
Somali |
540 |
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40 |
Armenian |
525 |
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41 |
Macedonian |
470 |
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42 |
Kurdish |
395 |
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43 |
Slovenian |
355 |
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44 |
Tigrigna |
350 |
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45 |
African languages |
340 |
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46 |
Sign languages |
340 |
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47 |
Khmer (Cambodian) |
320 |
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48 |
Sinhala (Sinhalese) |
290 |
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49 |
Malayalam |
285 |
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50 |
Bengali |
270 |
This information is from the 2006 Census by Statistics Canada.
The Region of Waterloo has more information about the languages spoken in Waterloo Region in the Language & Immigration Census Bulletins.
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