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OCR: Indigenous Family Language Families of Canada 1986(Source: Statistics Canada, Cat 86-10%) Algonquian Approx No.of Speakers 116 800 Languages (principal dialects in parentheses) 9 languages: Abenaki (Western dialect), Blackfoot, Cree (Plains, Swampy, Northern, Woods, Moose and Eastern), Delaware (Munsee), Maliseet, Micmac, Montagnais-Naskapi, Ojibwa (Algonquin, Ottawa, Mississauga, Chipewa, Saulteaux), Potawatomi Athapaskan 17 100 15 languages: Beaver, Carrier, Chilcotin, Chipewyan, Dogrib, Han, Hare, Kaska, Kutchin, Eskimo-Aleut Sarcee, Sekani, Slave, Tagish, Tahltan, Tuchone 22 200 1 language: Inuktitut (as many as 6 dialects) Haida 201 Iroquoian Language isolate (Skidegate & Masset dialects) 501 6 languages: Mohawk (2 dialects), Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga (2 dialects), Seneca, Tuscarora Kutenai 200 alishan Language isolate 1900 10 languages: Bella Coola, Comox (Sliammon), Halkomelem (several dialects), Lillocet, Okanagan (2 dialects), Sechelt, Shuswap, Squamish, Straits (several dialects), Thompson Siouan 2400 1 language: Dakota (Santee, Teton or Lakota, Assiniboine) Tlingit 300 Language isolate Tsimshian 1200 3 languages: Coast Tsimshian, Nass-Gitksan, Southern Tsimshian Wakashan 1400 5 languages: Haisla, Heiltsuk, Kwakwala