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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), 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 first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Vancouver Quadra
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 120,810 112,385 1,930 950 5,545 2,405 2.0
Single responses 116,515 108,305 1,800 855 5,550 2,235 1.9
English 89,445 88,460 985 0 0 985 1.1
French 845 55 790 0 0 790 93.5
Non-official languages 26,225 19,795 30 855 5,550 455 1.7
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 905 675 10 170 55 95 10.5
Italian 100 75 0 15 5 10 10.0
Portuguese 130 100 5 15 10 10 7.7
Romanian 50 30 0 15 0 10 20.0
Spanish 625 465 5 120 40 65 10.4
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 515 370 5 120 25 60 11.7
Dutch 45 30 0 15 5 5 11.1
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 355 245 0 95 10 50 14.1
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 95 80 0 5 5 0 0.0
Danish 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Swedish 40 35 0 0 5 5 12.5
Afrikaans 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 805 680 0 70 60 35 4.3
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 40 35 0 0 0 5 12.5
Czech 35 30 0 5 5 0 0.0
Macedonian 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Polish 80 65 0 10 5 5 6.3
Russian 375 315 0 30 30 15 4.0
Serbian 150 120 0 20 10 10 6.7
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 30 20 0 0 5 5 16.7
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Greek 525 470 0 10 45 10 1.9
Armenian 25 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finno-Ugric languages 115 105 0 5 0 5 4.3
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 35 25 0 5 0 5 14.3
Hungarian 70 70 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages 70 60 0 10 5 5 7.1
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkish 60 50 0 10 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages 335 290 5 20 25 15 4.5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Semitic languages 330 290 0 20 25 10 3.0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Arabic 170 130 0 15 20 5 2.9
Hebrew 160 155 0 5 0 5 3.1
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 995 885 0 55 55 30 3.0
Indo-Aryan languages 320 280 5 15 20 10 3.1
Bengali 40 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 20 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Hindi 60 60 0 0 0 0 0.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Panjabi (Punjabi) 155 130 0 10 10 5 3.2
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0 5 50.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 675 600 0 40 35 25 3.7
Kurdish 15 10 0 0 0 5 33.3
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 650 575 0 40 30 20 3.1
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Dravidian languages 60 55 0 5 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 625 535 5 10 80 5 0.8
Korean 1,900 1,600 0 55 245 30 1.6
Sino-Tibetan languages 18,940 13,705 10 300 4,930 155 0.8
Chinese languages 18,930 13,700 5 300 4,925 155 0.8
Cantonese 4,145 3,240 5 80 820 45 1.1
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Mandarin 8,220 5,750 0 125 2,345 60 0.7
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Taiwanese 335 230 0 5 95 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 6,200 4,445 0 85 1,665 40 0.6
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tai languages 60 50 0 0 10 0 0.0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Thai 60 50 0 5 10 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 45 5 15 5 5 7.7
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Vietnamese 60 40 0 15 5 10 16.7
Malayo-Polynesian languages 215 210 0 5 5 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 50 50 0 5 5 0 0.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 160 155 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 4,295 4,075 120 100 0 175 4.1
English and French 185 40 90 60 0 120 64.9
English and non-official language 4,010 4,005 5 0 0 5 0.1
French and non-official language 35 20 15 0 0 15 42.9
English, French and non-official language 70 15 15 40 0 30 42.9

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011040.

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