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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Vancouver Quadra
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 101,750 83,125 65 14,565 3,990
Single responses 99,885 81,810 60 14,045 3,975
English 64,315 54,265 0 10,005 40
French 1,710 90 40 1,575 0
Non-official languages 33,865 27,455 20 2,460 3,930
Aboriginal languages 35 30 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 5 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 15 15 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 15 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,135 1,610 5 480 50
Italian 435 325 0 105 5
Portuguese 270 220 0 35 10
Romanian 155 95 0 60 0
Spanish 1,265 960 0 270 30
Catalan 10 10 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,485 1,920 0 540 20
Dutch 380 275 5 105 5
Flemish 10 5 0 10 0
Frisian 5 5 0 5 0
German 1,670 1,290 0 370 15
Yiddish 60 40 0 20 0
Scandinavian languages 300 260 0 35 0
Danish 125 105 0 10 0
Icelandic 20 25 0 0 0
Norwegian 70 50 0 15 0
Swedish 85 75 0 10 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,790 1,525 0 220 40
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 15 0 5 5
Bulgarian 50 50 0 5 0
Croatian 150 135 0 10 5
Czech 125 105 0 15 5
Macedonian 15 10 0 5 0
Polish 370 305 0 65 5
Russian 525 450 0 55 20
Serbian 235 200 0 30 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 0 0
Slovak 65 60 0 5 0
Slovenian 40 35 0 5 0
Ukrainian 150 130 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 55 45 0 5 0
Latvian 30 25 0 10 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Greek 1,090 995 0 55 40
Armenian 65 45 0 20 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 5
Finno-Ugric languages 400 325 0 80 0
Estonian 40 35 0 5 0
Finnish 85 70 0 15 0
Hungarian 275 220 0 55 0
Turkic languages 165 145 0 15 5
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 5
Turkish 145 130 0 15 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 635 545 0 75 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 630 545 0 70 20
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 315 255 0 45 15
Hebrew 300 270 0 25 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,905 1,700 0 155 45
Indo-Aryan languages 900 815 0 70 15
Bengali 75 70 0 0 0
Gujarati 85 75 0 10 5
Hindi 220 205 0 15 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 360 315 0 30 15
Sindhi 30 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 70 65 0 5 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 995 875 0 95 30
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 970 850 0 90 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 115 110 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 60 55 0 0 0
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 985 865 0 50 70
Korean 2,190 1,900 0 80 215
Sino-Tibetan languages 18,655 14,630 5 610 3,410
Chinese languages 18,640 14,615 10 605 3,405
Cantonese 4,390 3,655 5 215 510
Chaochow (Teochow) 20 15 0 0 0
Fukien 65 60 0 0 5
Hakka 45 35 0 0 5
Mandarin 7,065 5,270 0 205 1,590
Shanghainese 30 25 0 0 5
Taiwanese 435 335 0 5 90
Chinese, n.o.s. 6,590 5,220 5 175 1,200
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 105 95 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 100 95 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 120 100 0 20 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 110 90 0 20 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 780 765 0 15 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 130 130 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 615 605 0 10 0
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 50 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 35 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 10 0 0 5 5
Multiple responses 1,865 1,315 5 525 15
English and French 280 40 5 240 0
English and non-official language 1,430 1,245 0 175 15
French and non-official language 105 25 0 75 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011055.

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