Current status of Native American Languages in Canada and Greenland.
See Ethnologue acknowledgment in USA section. Survival and language-family codes
are the same as in that section. According to the 1981 Canadian census, there
were about 150,000 persons whose mother tongue was a Native American (Indian
or Eskimo) language, out of a total population of 26,900,000. The 1986
Greenland census listed 46,000 Greenlandic Inuit speakers out of a total
population of 54,000. Greenlandic Inuit is the official language of Greenland
(Kalatdit Nunat).
| Abnaki-Penobscot | 20 | Algonkian | Quebec |
| Algonkian | 3,000 | Algonkian | Quebec, Ontario |
| Assiniboine | 200 | SD | Alberta, Saskatchewan |
| Atikamekw | 3,225 | Algonkian | Quebec |
| Beaver | 500 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Bella Coola | 150 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Blackfoot | 9,000 | Algonkian | Alberta |
| Carrier, Babine | 1,600 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Carrier, Central | 1,500 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Carrier, Southern | 500 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Cayuga | 380 | Iroquoian | Ontario |
| Chilcotin | 1,200 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Chinook Pidgin | 10 | Creole | British Columbia |
| Chipewyan | 4,000 | Athapascan | Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories |
| Comox | 400 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Cree, Central | 4,500 | Algonkian | Ontario, Manitoba |
| Cree, Coastal | 5,000 | Algonkian | Quebec |
| Cree, Inland | 2,200 | Algonkian | Quebec |
| Cree, Western | 35,000 | Algonkian | Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta |
| Dakota (Sioux) | 19,000 | SD | Manitoba, Saskatchewan |
| Delaware | 50 | Algonkian | Ontario |
| Dogrib | 2,300 | Athapascan | Northwest Territories |
| Gwichin | 1,500 | Athapascan | Yukon, Northwest Territories |
| Haida | 300 | Na-Dene | British Columbia |
| Haisla | 250 | Wakashan | British Columbia |
| Halkomelem | 500 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Han | 50 | Athapascan | Yukon |
| Heiltsuk | 450 | Wakashan | British Columbia |
| Inuit, Copper | 2,000 | Eskimo-Aleut | Northwest Territories |
| Inuit, Eastern | 17,500 | Eskimo-Aleut | Northwest Territories, Quebec, Labrador |
| Inuit, Greenlandic | 46,000 | Eskimo-Aleut | Greenland |
| Inuit, N Alaskan | 4,000 | Eskimo-Aleut | Yukon |
| Kaska (Nahani) | 500 | Athapascan | Yukon, British Columbia |
| Kutenai | 200 | Kutenai (isolate) | British Columbia |
| Kwakiutl | 1,000 | Wakashan | British Columbia |
| Lakota (Teton) | 6,000 | SD | Manitoba, Saskatchewan |
| Lilloet | 500 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Malecite-Passamaquoddy | 1,500 | Algonkian | New Brunswick |
| Micmac | 6,000 | Algonkian | Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec |
| Mitchif (Fr Cree) | n/a | Creole | Manitoba, Saskatchewan |
| Mohawk | 6,000 | Iroquoian | Ontario, Quebec |
| Montagnais | 7,000 | Algonkian | Quebec, Labrador |
| Naskapi | 400 | Algonkian | Labrador |
| Nass-Gitksian | 2,500 | Penutian | British Columbia |
| Nootka | 500 | Wakashan | British Columbia |
| Ojibwa, Eastern | 8,000 | Algonkian | Ontario |
| Ojibwa, Severn | 8,000 | Algonkian | Ontario, Manitoba |
| Ojibwa, Western | 35,000 | Algonkian | Ontario to British Columbia |
| Okanagon | 500 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Oneida | 250 | Iroquoian | Ontario |
| Onondaga | 100 | Iroquoian | Ontario |
| Pentlatch | 0 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Potawatomi | 500 | Algonkian | Ontario |
| Salish, Straits | 50 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Sarci | 75 | Athapascan | Alberta |
| Sechelt | 15 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Sekani | 150 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Shuswap | 500 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Slave (Slavey) | 4,000 | Athapascan | Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories |
| Squamish | <20 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Stoney | 1,000 | Siouan-Caddoan | Alberta |
| Tagish | <5 | Athapascan | Yukon |
| Tahltan | 100 | Athapascan | British Columbia |
| Tanana, Upper | 370 | Athapascan | Yukon |
| Thompson (Ntlakyapamuk) | 350 | Salishan | British Columbia |
| Tlingit | 2,000 | Na-Dene | British Columbia |
| Tsimshian | 1,600 | Penutian | British Columbia |
| Tuscarora | 30 | Iroquoian | Ontario |
| Tutchone (Selkirk) | 450 | Athapascan | Yukon |
| Wyandot (Huron) | 0 | Iroquoian | Quebec |