Statistics Canada Wednesday: Canada

Chinese Dialects Dept: The trend was revealed in new data from the 2011 census released by Statistics Canada Wednesday, which reported on more than 200 languages now being used in the country, according to Vancouver Sun. Walk into the living rooms or kitchens of many Canadian homes these days, and you'll increasingly hear people speaking Chinese dialects, Punjabi, Arabic, Persian, Spanish and Tagalog a Philippine-based tongue that saw the biggest spike in use in recent years and oTTAWA - Canada is steadily becoming a nation of many languages, as recent waves of immigration turn the country's main cities into a translator's paradise. It's far too soon to envision the demise of English or French as the country's two dominant languages, but the figures show a rise in other languages - primarily Asian - that people speak at home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.