Indigenous languages
Canadian Grammar
Hodgepodge
Heritage Languages
'Official' Languages
100

Cayuga, Mohawk, and Oneida are languages in this family

What are Iroquoian languages?

100

Instead of feminine and masculine, many Canadian Indigenous languages categorize their nouns into these two groups.

What is animate and inanimate?

100

This is the northernmost signed language in Canada

What is Inuit Sign Language?

100

One of the official languages of the Philippines, this is now also the most-spoken heritage language in Manitoba today

What is Tagalog?

100

This is the only officially bilingual Canadian province

What is New Brunswick?

200

This language family covers the largest region, spanning from the East coast right across through the Prairies

What is the Algonquian language family

200

Iroquoian languages have singular, plural, and this kind of number?

What is dual number?

200

A bluff means a group of trees in this Canadian Province

What is Manitoba?

200

This language, brought over by Mennonite settlers, was once the most-spoken heritage language in Manitoba.

What is German?

200

This region of Canada has the most official languages, with 11.

What are the Northwest Territories?

300

This language family, spoken in BC, has the most complex consonant systems.

What are Salish languages?

300

This grammatical term is sometimes known as the 'fourth person'

What is obviation?

300

In which province is LSQ used?

What is Quebec?

300
Immigration laws changed in this year to a labour-market-driven system, resulting in many new heritage languages coming to Canada over the following decades

What is 1967?

300

This 1960s Quebec movement was not very noisy

What is the Quiet Revolution? (Révolution tranquille)

400

Beothuk, Ktunaxa and Haida are examples of these

What are Canadian isolate languages?

400

Languages with extremely long words which are an entire sentence in a language like English are called this

What are polysynthetic languages?

400

If you're saying 'oot and aboot' you are probably doing this

What is Canadian Raising?

400

Between 1885 and 1923, a head tax was imposed on this important immigrant group to Canada

Who are the Chinese?
400

This trustworthy group is largely responsible for the Canadian accent today

Who are the Loyalists?

500

Ronald E. Ignace

Who is the Indigenous Languages Commissioner?

500

This mix of Acadian French and Canadian English is spoken only in New Brunswick

What is chiac?

500

This Franco-Manitoban took an English parking ticket to the Supreme Court of Canada and won

Who is Georges Forest?

500

This is the third-most-spoken language in Canadian parliament, coming right after English and French.

What is Punjabi?

500

The Laurendeau-Dunton Commission also had this snappier name

What is the B&B commission?