Editing Prince Edward Island (section)

=== Language ===
{{Main|Demographics of Prince Edward Island#Languages}}
{{See also|Acadian French}}
[[File:Ile-du-Prince-Edouard langues.png|thumb|Languages of Prince Edward Island (red: English, blue: French). [[Lot 15, Prince Edward Island|Evangeline Region]] is the only Francophone majority area on the island.]]
As of the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Canadian Census]], the ten most spoken languages in the province included English (149,525 or 99.36%), French (19,445 or 12.92%), Mandarin (2,940 or 1.95%), Hindi (1,660 or 1.1%), Tagalog (1,630 or 1.08%), Punjabi (1,550 or 1.03%), Spanish (1,425 or 0.95%), Arabic (1,165 or 0.77%), German (1,040 or 0.69%), and Vietnamese (785 or 0.52%).<ref name="language2021">{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |date=August 17, 2022 |title=Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population Profile table Prince Edward Island [Province] |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?LANG=E&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&DGUIDlist=2021A000211&HEADERlist=,15,13,18,12,16,14,17&SearchText=Prince%20Edward%20Island |access-date=August 12, 2022 |website=Statistics Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818005559/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?LANG=E&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&DGUIDlist=2021A000211&HEADERlist=,15,13,18,12,16,14,17&SearchText=Prince%20Edward%20Island |archive-date=August 18, 2022}}</ref> The question on knowledge of languages allows for multiple responses.

The [[Canada 2016 Census]] showed a population of 142,910. Of the 140,020 singular responses to the census question concerning mother tongue, the most commonly reported languages were as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Language
! scope="col" | Number
! scope="col" | Percent
|-
|1.
|English
|128,005
|94.9%
|-
|2.
|French
|4,865
|3.5%
|-
|3.
|[[Mandarin language|Mandarin]]
|2,165
|1.6%
|-
|4.
|Arabic
|575
|0.4%
|-
|5.
|[[Dutch language|Dutch]]
|465
|0.3%
|-
|6.
|[[Tagalog language|Tagalog]]
|365
|0.3%
|-
|7.
|German
|320
|0.2%
|-
|8.
|Spanish
|305
|0.2%
|-
|9.
|Chinese languages, not otherwise specified
|295
|0.2%
|-
|10.
|[[Cantonese language|Cantonese]]
|210
|0.2%
|-
|11.
|[[Nepali language|Nepali]]
|200
|0.1%
|-
|12.
|[[Persian language|Persian (Farsi)]]
|175
|0.1%
|-
|13.
|Russian
|140
|0.1%
|-
|14.
|[[Korean language|Korean]]
|120
|<&nbsp;0.1%
|}

In addition, there were 460 responses of both English and a "non-official language"; 30 of both French and a "non-official language"; 485 of both English and French; and 20 of English, French, and a "non-official language". (Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=ER&Code1=1110&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=1110&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=3 |title=Prince Edward Island [Economic region], Prince Edward Island and Canada [Country] (table). Census Profile. |publisher=Statistics Canada |location=Ottawa |date=September 13, 2017 |access-date=October 13, 2017 |archive-date=October 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014034328/http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=ER&Code1=1110&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=1110&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=3 |url-status=live}}</ref>