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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 West Vancouver--Sunshine Coast--Sea to Sky CountryFootnote 1
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 112,030 98,305 90 12,125 1,510
Single responses 110,610 97,270 85 11,750 1,505
English 87,315 79,475 10 7,805 25
French 2,405 210 50 2,150 0
Non-official languages 20,890 17,585 25 1,800 1,475
Aboriginal languages 185 180 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 5 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 5 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 5 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 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 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 150 145 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 60 55 0 5 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 30 30 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 5 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) 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,525 1,215 5 280 30
Italian 455 350 5 100 0
Portuguese 160 130 0 35 0
Romanian 115 75 0 30 10
Spanish 785 650 0 115 15
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,585 3,035 0 540 5
Dutch 585 460 0 125 0
Flemish 15 10 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 2,310 1,955 0 345 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 565 515 5 45 5
Danish 265 245 0 15 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 125 115 0 10 0
Swedish 155 145 0 15 0
Afrikaans 90 90 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 25 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,740 1,505 5 190 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 10 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0 0
Croatian 115 95 0 10 5
Czech 320 280 0 35 5
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 470 400 0 65 5
Russian 335 290 5 35 10
Serbian 70 65 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 125 105 0 15 5
Slovenian 40 35 0 5 0
Ukrainian 190 170 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Latvian 30 35 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 135 110 0 20 5
Armenian 90 60 0 25 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 400 355 0 40 5
Estonian 55 45 0 10 5
Finnish 125 115 0 10 0
Hungarian 225 195 0 25 0
Turkic languages 160 130 0 25 5
Azerbaijani 35 35 0 0 0
Turkish 120 95 5 25 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 255 205 0 45 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 250 195 0 40 10
Amharic 5 5 0 5 0
Arabic 185 150 5 35 5
Hebrew 40 30 0 5 0
Maltese 10 5 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 5,585 4,755 5 375 450
Indo-Aryan languages 1,660 1,390 0 50 225
Bengali 15 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 125 110 0 10 0
Hindi 110 105 0 5 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,240 995 0 30 220
Sindhi 65 60 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0 0
Urdu 80 80 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 3,920 3,360 5 325 225
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,900 3,345 5 325 225
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 740 665 0 35 40
Korean 1,165 965 0 50 150
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,895 3,035 0 145 715
Chinese languages 3,885 3,030 0 140 720
Cantonese 785 665 0 50 70
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 15 15 0 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,410 1,025 0 45 345
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 95 70 0 5 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,580 1,250 0 45 280
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 55 60 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 55 60 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 50 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 40 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,135 1,115 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 65 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 40 0 0 0
Malay 55 55 0 5 5
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 925 910 0 10 5
Bikol 0 5 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. 20 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 35 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 35 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 20 10 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 0
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,425 1,035 5 375 10
English and French 250 45 0 200 0
English and non-official language 1,025 915 0 100 10
French and non-official language 110 60 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 50 15 0 30 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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