Languages other than the official languages are also important in Canada, with 5,470,820 people listing a non-official language as a first language. (The above three statistics include those who listed more than one first language.) Among the most important non-official first language groups are Chinese (853,745 first-language speakers), especially Cantonese (322,315); Italian (469,485); and German (438,080).
Speakers of a great many aboriginal languages live in Canada; however, all but a few of the aboriginal languages are in decline. The only aboriginal languages that are believed to be sustainable at present are Cree (an official language in the Northwest Territories; 72,885 first-language speakers), Inuktitut (an official language in the NWT and Nunavut; 29,010 speakers), and Ojibwa (together with Cree, Obijwa will make up 150,000 speakers).
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