Census release gives profile of spoken languages, family and household size
LETHBRIDGE — German is Lethbridge’s second largest mother tongue, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.
A large release of results from the 2016 federal census reveals 4,500 people in the Lethbridge Census Metropolitan Area who responded with German as their mother tongue, defined as the first language the individual learned to speak at the home and can still understand.
Other minority languages with significant numbers include Dutch (2,025), Spanish (1,585), Tagalog (1,055), Chinese languages (905), Nepali (965), Polish (440), and Arabic (405).
The total who gave a non-official language as their mother tongue was 17,005, compared to 1,060 for French and 96,305 English.