According to the 2006 Census, 6,186,950 foreign-born people lived in Canada. Not all foreign-born people who live in Canada have English or French as their mother tongue. In the 2006 census, people reported their mother tongue as: • Chinese 18.6% • Italian 6.6% • Punjabi 5.9% • Spanish 5.8% • German 5.4% • Tagalog 4.8% • Arabic 4.7%