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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 Greater Vancouver A, RDA
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 12,820 10,605 10 1,255 950
Single responses 12,485 10,330 5 1,205 940
English 4,680 4,005 0 665 15
French 155 10 5 145 0
Non-official languages 7,645 6,315 0 400 930
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
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 5 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 0 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 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 390 300 0 75 20
Italian 20 10 0 10 5
Portuguese 65 55 0 5 5
Romanian 25 20 0 5 0
Spanish 280 210 0 55 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 205 0 60 5
Dutch 50 30 0 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 165 125 0 35 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0 5
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 265 210 0 40 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 45 35 0 10 0
Russian 120 100 0 15 10
Serbian 25 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 5 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 25 20 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 30 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 10 0 10 0
Turkic languages 45 45 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 40 40 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 305 275 0 15 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 310 275 0 15 15
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 215 185 0 15 15
Hebrew 95 85 0 0 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 625 580 0 30 15
Indo-Aryan languages 240 230 0 10 0
Bengali 40 35 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 5 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 385 350 0 25 10
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 370 340 0 25 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 145 115 0 5 25
Korean 1,060 935 0 40 90
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,195 3,345 0 105 750
Chinese languages 4,195 3,345 0 105 745
Cantonese 410 350 0 10 50
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,990 1,520 0 55 410
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 35 25 0 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,730 1,425 5 30 275
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 35 30 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 25 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 95 100 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 40 45 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 50 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 25 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 20 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 335 280 0 50 5
English and French 35 15 0 20 0
English and non-official language 285 255 0 15 10
French and non-official language 15 5 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0

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

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