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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 Vancouver Kingsway
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 124,090 101,520 75 7,970 14,520
Single responses 119,445 97,335 70 7,565 14,480
English 48,410 43,320 5 4,990 95
French 1,080 85 25 960 5
Non-official languages 69,955 53,930 35 1,610 14,385
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 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 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 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 0 5 0 5 0
Carrier 5 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 10 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,385 3,725 5 375 280
Italian 1,240 1,075 0 90 70
Portuguese 1,300 1,110 5 85 110
Romanian 95 55 0 35 10
Spanish 1,750 1,485 5 170 95
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,240 1,080 0 145 10
Dutch 170 130 0 35 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 930 830 0 90 5
Yiddish 20 15 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 100 85 0 15 0
Danish 45 45 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 30 20 0 10 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,680 1,500 0 105 75
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0 5
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 270 255 0 10 5
Czech 70 60 0 10 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 425 385 0 35 10
Russian 360 300 0 25 35
Serbian 220 195 0 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 40 30 0 10 5
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 35 40 0 0 0
Ukrainian 140 120 0 10 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 415 375 0 20 15
Armenian 45 35 0 5 0
Albanian 10 10 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 270 235 0 25 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 60 50 0 10 5
Hungarian 190 170 0 15 5
Turkic languages 60 50 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 55 45 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 555 460 5 65 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 65 55 0 0 5
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 0 0 5
Semitic languages 480 400 0 65 15
Amharic 40 40 0 0 0
Arabic 240 185 5 40 10
Hebrew 170 145 0 25 5
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 5,385 4,780 0 125 480
Indo-Aryan languages 5,010 4,440 0 105 460
Bengali 130 115 0 5 5
Gujarati 235 210 0 5 20
Hindi 1,540 1,450 0 20 70
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,855 2,430 0 65 360
Sindhi 35 30 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0 0
Urdu 90 90 0 0 5
Nepali 50 50 0 0 0
Iranian languages 365 330 0 15 20
Kurdish 65 60 0 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 285 255 0 15 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 545 465 0 20 60
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0 5
Tamil 460 385 0 20 55
Telugu 20 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 1,025 920 0 15 95
Korean 835 750 0 15 70
Sino-Tibetan languages 38,540 25,890 15 470 12,165
Chinese languages 38,360 25,745 20 465 12,125
Cantonese 20,685 13,195 5 275 7,205
Chaochow (Teochow) 75 50 0 5 20
Fukien 165 125 0 0 40
Hakka 155 120 0 0 35
Mandarin 4,370 3,400 5 75 900
Shanghainese 90 55 0 5 30
Taiwanese 220 165 0 5 55
Chinese, n.o.s. 12,595 8,630 10 110 3,845
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 140 115 0 0 25
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 5 10
Tai languages 160 145 0 5 10
Lao 30 25 0 5 5
Thai 130 120 0 5 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 4,920 3,910 5 115 895
Khmer (Cambodian) 130 105 0 5 20
Vietnamese 4,795 3,805 0 115 875
Malayo-Polynesian languages 9,640 9,425 5 55 155
Bisayan languages 440 425 0 5 10
Ilocano 725 710 0 0 15
Malay 280 270 0 0 5
Pampango 65 60 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 7,900 7,765 0 45 90
Bikol 45 45 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 40 35 0 0 5
Pangasinan 40 40 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 105 75 0 0 25
Niger-Congo languages 75 55 0 15 10
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 5 0
Bantu languages 35 25 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 15 10 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 35 10 0 0 20
American Sign Language 15 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0 15
Other languages 15 20 0 0 0
Multiple responses 4,640 4,190 10 405 40
English and French 240 45 0 195 0
English and non-official language 4,220 4,055 0 135 25
French and non-official language 115 65 5 35 5
English, French and non-official language 65 20 0 45 0

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

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