Survey results show that usage of Tagalog in Canada increased by 64% between 2006 and 2011, which translates to about 279,000 people.
Tagalog is now the fifth most common
non-official language spoken in Canadian households. The top ten
immigrant languages spoken most often at home in 2011 were: Punjabi,
Chinese n.o.s., Cantonese, Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic, Mandarin, Italian,
Urdu, and German.
Vancouver has one of the largest
Canadian populations of Tagalog speakers, with 47,600 reporting to
Statistics Canada that it was their primary language at home in 2011.
Tagalog is now the most common immigrant home language in Edmonton and
the second most common in Calgary, after Punjabi.
Last summer, the Philippine Embassy held trial Tagalog classes in
Ottawa, in response to parents’ concerns that their children will forget
how to speak the Filipino language. The Embassy hopes to expand the
program to other cities next year.
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