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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 (2003 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 Abbotsford
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 132,085 118,550 40 5,870 7,630
Single responses 129,690 116,475 40 5,590 7,590
English 86,925 83,080 0 3,790 60
French 1,095 165 25 910 0
Non-official languages 41,670 33,230 15 900 7,525
Aboriginal languages 30 35 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 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 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 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 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 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 10 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 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. 5 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 5 5 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 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,585 1,360 0 155 70
Italian 195 165 0 30 0
Portuguese 170 145 0 15 10
Romanian 235 180 0 40 15
Spanish 985 870 0 65 45
Catalan 0 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 7,655 7,405 5 175 65
Dutch 1,475 1,420 0 55 5
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 55 55 0 0 0
German 5,695 5,540 0 90 65
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 270 260 0 10 0
Danish 150 145 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 5 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0 0
Afrikaans 135 125 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,230 1,150 0 45 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 0 0
Czech 70 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 355 330 0 10 10
Russian 320 295 0 10 15
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 5 0
Slovak 45 40 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 255 240 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 70 60 0 5 0
Armenian 20 20 0 0 0
Albanian 70 60 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 365 350 0 5 5
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 100 95 0 0 5
Hungarian 255 245 0 5 5
Turkic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 335 290 0 25 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 335 290 0 25 10
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 305 260 0 30 15
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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 25,545 18,410 10 340 6,790
Indo-Aryan languages 25,340 18,225 10 325 6,775
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0 0
Hindi 425 390 0 15 20
Konkani 0 0 0 0 5
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 24,660 17,610 5 305 6,740
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 165 150 0 0 5
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 205 175 0 15 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 180 160 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 50 45 0 5 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 180 165 0 0 15
Korean 1,315 1,110 5 25 180
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,275 1,040 0 35 205
Chinese languages 1,260 1,030 0 30 205
Cantonese 275 210 0 10 55
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 375 320 0 5 50
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 595 485 0 15 95
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 275 245 0 5 20
Lao 235 210 0 10 20
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 640 525 0 15 95
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 5 5
Vietnamese 615 510 0 10 90
Malayo-Polynesian languages 740 720 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 40 45 0 0 5
Ilocano 40 35 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 585 565 0 10 5
Bikol 10 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 15 20 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 95 80 5 10 5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 60 0 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 30 30 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 10 0 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Creoles 35 25 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 30 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 10
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,395 2,075 0 275 40
English and French 185 50 0 135 0
English and non-official language 2,090 1,960 0 85 35
French and non-official language 75 50 0 20 5
English, French and non-official language 40 15 0 25 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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