Statistics Canada: Canada

Official Languages Dept: Canadians are speaking in more than 200 languages according to new data from the 2011 census released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday, according to CBC. The majority of multilingual people are speaking English plus an immigrant language such as Mandarin and bilingualism is growing in Canada, but not its two official languages, English and French. It shows that 17.5 per cent of the population or 5.8 million people speak at least two languages at home. That's up 3.3 per cent or 1.3 million people from the 2006 census. Of those 5.8 million bilingual households, 1,387,190 use both English and French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.