Tagalog now the fastest-growing language in Canada
Tagalog is the fastest growing foreign language in Canada, jumping by 64 percent from 2006 to 2011, a recent survey showed.
According to a report of the news site canada.com, "robust immigration" would probably explain the whopping increase in the number of Tagalog-speaking residents in Canada.
The country is home to some 667,674 Filipinos, based on the 2010 Stock Estimate of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas.
Canada.com said some 279,000 people claimed to be Tagalog speakers in 2011, compared to 170,000 five years earlier.
"It was the most-spoken foreign language in Edmonton; the second-most-spoken foreign language in Calgary; and the sixth-most-common in Vancouver and Toronto," the report said.
The report added that Canada admitted more permanent residents from the Philippines last year — 34,991 — than from any other country.
In 2002, new permanent residents in Canada numbered only 11,011.
Some 279,000 people reported using Tagalog in 2011, compared to 170,000 five years earlier.
Canada.com said the rise in the number of permanent residents in the Philippines can be attributed to the "Live-In Caregiver Program" that provides nannies to Canadian families.
According to a report of the news site canada.com, "robust immigration" would probably explain the whopping increase in the number of Tagalog-speaking residents in Canada.
The country is home to some 667,674 Filipinos, based on the 2010 Stock Estimate of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas.
Canada.com said some 279,000 people claimed to be Tagalog speakers in 2011, compared to 170,000 five years earlier.
"It was the most-spoken foreign language in Edmonton; the second-most-spoken foreign language in Calgary; and the sixth-most-common in Vancouver and Toronto," the report said.
The report added that Canada admitted more permanent residents from the Philippines last year — 34,991 — than from any other country.
In 2002, new permanent residents in Canada numbered only 11,011.
Some 279,000 people reported using Tagalog in 2011, compared to 170,000 five years earlier.
Canada.com said the rise in the number of permanent residents in the Philippines can be attributed to the "Live-In Caregiver Program" that provides nannies to Canadian families.
"As well, incoming nurses and service-sector workers send money home to their families (remittances from overseas Filipinos account for roughly one-tenth of the GDP of The Philippines)," the report said.
Canada's linguistic landscape
Even though Tagalog is the fastest growing foreign language in Canada, Mandarin "is expected to make a bigger splash. How big of a splash, though, isn’t known precisely," the report said.
Mandarin users grew by 51 percent since the last census, it noted.
Mandarin users grew by 51 percent since the last census, it noted.
The 2011 census of Statistics Canada noted that the respondents who claimed Chinese as their mother tongue included:
- 255,000 Mandarin speakers;
- 389,000 Cantonese speakers, and
- 441,000 people who simply wrote “Chinese” as their mother tongue.
"Statistics Canada couldn’t say exactly how many of these were Cantonese speakers, Mandarin speakers, or used one of the other eight languages spoken in China today," the report said. - VVP, GMA News
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