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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 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 120,810 98,705 70 16,405 5,635
Single responses 118,535 97,075 65 15,790 5,615
English 73,440 62,155 0 11,220 65
French 1,870 110 40 1,715 0
Non-official languages 43,230 34,805 20 2,855 5,550
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 15 10 0 5 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 10 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 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 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 2,390 1,795 0 535 55
Italian 495 365 0 120 5
Portuguese 290 240 0 40 10
Romanian 175 110 0 65 5
Spanish 1,410 1,070 0 305 35
Catalan 15 5 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,750 2,140 0 580 20
Dutch 420 305 5 110 0
Flemish 15 5 0 10 0
Frisian 5 5 0 5 0
German 1,830 1,425 0 390 10
Yiddish 75 55 0 20 0
Scandinavian languages 350 305 0 40 5
Danish 140 125 0 10 5
Icelandic 20 20 0 0 0
Norwegian 75 60 0 15 0
Swedish 120 100 0 15 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Welsh 15 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,135 1,830 0 245 60
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 30 0 5 5
Bulgarian 60 50 0 5 0
Croatian 160 150 0 15 0
Czech 155 135 0 20 5
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 420 355 0 70 0
Russian 655 560 0 60 30
Serbian 275 230 0 40 10
Serbo-Croatian 45 45 0 0 0
Slovak 70 60 0 5 0
Slovenian 40 40 0 5 0
Ukrainian 180 165 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 60 55 0 5 0
Latvian 35 30 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 0 0
Greek 1,145 1,045 0 60 40
Armenian 75 50 0 25 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 485 400 0 85 0
Estonian 45 40 0 10 0
Finnish 95 80 0 15 0
Hungarian 340 285 0 60 0
Turkic languages 180 155 0 20 5
Azerbaijani 5 10 0 0 0
Turkish 155 135 0 20 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 5 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 720 615 0 80 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 715 615 0 80 25
Amharic 10 15 0 0 0
Arabic 360 290 0 50 20
Hebrew 335 305 0 30 5
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,230 1,995 0 180 55
Indo-Aryan languages 1,100 1,000 0 80 20
Bengali 80 80 0 0 0
Gujarati 105 90 0 5 0
Hindi 260 235 0 20 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 470 420 0 35 15
Sindhi 40 35 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 0 0
Urdu 80 70 0 5 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 1,115 980 0 100 35
Kurdish 25 20 0 5 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,085 950 0 100 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 145 140 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0 0
Tamil 85 80 0 5 0
Telugu 30 25 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 1,175 1,025 5 55 85
Korean 2,580 2,225 5 105 245
Sino-Tibetan languages 25,580 19,870 10 785 4,915
Chinese languages 25,545 19,840 5 785 4,915
Cantonese 6,125 5,085 5 270 765
Chaochow (Teochow) 25 20 0 0 5
Fukien 90 80 0 0 10
Hakka 55 40 0 5 10
Mandarin 9,615 7,110 0 270 2,240
Shanghainese 50 35 0 0 15
Taiwanese 655 510 0 15 135
Chinese, n.o.s. 8,925 6,965 5 225 1,735
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 5 0
Burmese 15 15 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 125 115 0 5 10
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 120 110 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 165 125 5 25 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 150 120 0 25 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,095 1,075 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0 0
Malay 170 160 0 5 5
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 870 860 0 10 5
Bikol 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 50 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 35 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 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 10 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 10 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 2,270 1,635 5 615 20
English and French 325 45 0 275 0
English and non-official language 1,760 1,545 0 195 20
French and non-official language 110 30 0 80 0
English, French and non-official language 70 15 0 60 0

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

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