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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Chilliwack, CY
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 77,230 73,260 25 3,610 340
Single responses 76,490 72,665 20 3,470 335
English 66,865 64,540 0 2,310 10
French 1,025 150 15 860 0
Non-official languages 8,605 7,975 5 295 330
Aboriginal languages 60 55 0 0 5
Algonquian languages 20 20 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. 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 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 15 20 0 5 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 5 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 5 0 0 0
Lillooet 10 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 855 745 0 60 50
Italian 90 75 0 15 0
Portuguese 65 55 0 5 0
Romanian 185 155 0 15 15
Spanish 515 455 0 25 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,420 4,255 5 120 40
Dutch 1,580 1,525 0 45 10
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 15 20 0 0 0
German 2,520 2,435 0 60 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 185 180 0 5 0
Danish 115 110 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 40 0 0 0
Swedish 25 30 0 0 0
Afrikaans 105 95 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 680 635 0 35 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0 0
Czech 55 55 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 170 150 0 20 0
Russian 130 120 0 10 5
Serbian 20 20 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 180 175 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 5
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 5
Greek 60 50 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 215 205 0 10 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 75 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 135 125 0 5 0
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 90 85 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 85 80 0 10 5
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 45 40 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 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 725 640 0 20 60
Indo-Aryan languages 645 570 0 20 55
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0 0
Hindi 90 85 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 495 420 0 10 55
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 80 75 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 80 75 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 80 75 0 5 0
Korean 355 300 0 10 45
Sino-Tibetan languages 470 375 0 10 80
Chinese languages 470 375 0 10 80
Cantonese 70 60 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 175 140 0 5 25
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 205 165 0 5 40
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 25 0 0 0
Lao 15 10 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 140 110 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 135 110 0 5 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 310 305 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 245 245 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 5 0 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 735 595 0 140 0
English and French 150 45 0 110 0
English and non-official language 540 515 0 25 0
French and non-official language 45 40 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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