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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 South / Vancouver-Sud
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 122,080 102,140 50 5,920 13,965
Single responses 117,390 97,990 45 5,440 13,915
English 37,710 34,840 0 2,795 70
French 745 65 10 670 0
Non-official languages 78,935 63,080 35 1,975 13,850
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 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 10 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 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 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 5 0 0 0 5
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 5
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 0 0 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. 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 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 5 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 3,170 2,680 5 295 190
Italian 555 485 0 50 20
Portuguese 435 380 0 30 20
Romanian 220 130 0 80 10
Spanish 1,960 1,680 5 130 140
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,415 1,290 0 110 15
Dutch 150 135 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,105 1,020 0 80 5
Yiddish 40 30 0 5 5
Scandinavian languages 100 85 0 10 5
Danish 45 40 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 5
Swedish 25 25 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,825 1,640 0 110 75
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 40 0 10 0
Croatian 220 210 0 5 5
Czech 90 80 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 455 390 5 35 25
Russian 570 495 5 35 35
Serbian 140 135 5 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 140 135 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 30 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 210 195 0 10 5
Armenian 50 35 0 10 5
Albanian 20 15 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 270 255 0 15 10
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 70 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 200 180 0 10 5
Turkic languages 130 110 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 20 15 0 0 0
Turkish 100 80 0 10 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 655 530 0 75 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Oromo 25 20 0 0 5
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages 605 485 0 70 45
Amharic 85 70 0 5 5
Arabic 330 245 0 50 35
Hebrew 135 120 0 10 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 30 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 14,735 12,220 5 345 2,165
Indo-Aryan languages 14,060 11,630 5 305 2,115
Bengali 455 425 0 10 20
Gujarati 340 305 0 5 25
Hindi 1,630 1,525 0 30 65
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 11,095 8,870 5 250 1,975
Sindhi 30 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0 0
Urdu 345 320 0 10 20
Nepali 65 60 0 0 0
Iranian languages 650 560 0 30 50
Kurdish 110 100 0 5 10
Pashto 90 75 0 0 15
Persian (Farsi) 445 385 0 25 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 955 865 0 25 65
Kannada 5 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 210 195 0 5 10
Tamil 705 640 0 15 50
Telugu 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Japanese 910 815 0 10 80
Korean 1,195 1,020 0 40 130
Sino-Tibetan languages 43,185 31,930 15 760 10,470
Chinese languages 43,075 31,830 15 765 10,465
Cantonese 20,705 15,005 5 365 5,335
Chaochow (Teochow) 90 50 0 0 40
Fukien 170 140 0 5 25
Hakka 115 90 0 0 20
Mandarin 6,835 5,225 0 135 1,470
Shanghainese 165 95 0 5 60
Taiwanese 520 405 0 10 110
Chinese, n.o.s. 14,475 10,815 5 240 3,405
Tibetan languages 25 20 0 0 5
Burmese 75 75 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tai languages 120 115 0 5 5
Lao 25 25 0 0 0
Thai 95 95 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,475 1,980 0 55 440
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 75 0 5 10
Vietnamese 2,380 1,905 0 50 430
Malayo-Polynesian languages 7,335 7,165 0 65 110
Bisayan languages 315 310 0 0 5
Ilocano 530 515 0 0 10
Malay 240 225 0 5 10
Pampango 70 70 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 6,020 5,910 0 50 65
Bikol 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 25 30 0 0 5
Pangasinan 25 25 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 80 65 0 0 20
Niger-Congo languages 135 105 5 25 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 50 0 20 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 25 25 0 0 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 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. 20 10 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 30 10 0 5 20
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 15
Other languages 20 15 0 0 5
Multiple responses 4,690 4,150 10 485 55
English and French 180 40 5 140 0
English and non-official language 4,300 4,030 0 230 40
French and non-official language 145 70 0 60 15
English, French and non-official language 65 15 0 55 0

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

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