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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 North Vancouver, 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 47,815 42,400 35 4,555 825
Single responses 46,670 41,520 35 4,290 820
English 31,550 28,805 5 2,725 20
French 710 60 15 640 0
Non-official languages 14,410 12,665 15 925 800
Aboriginal languages 15 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 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 0 5 0 5 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 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,535 1,270 0 220 40
Italian 385 320 0 50 10
Portuguese 135 120 0 15 0
Romanian 205 130 0 65 5
Spanish 805 700 0 85 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,145 1,005 5 140 0
Dutch 170 140 0 25 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 745 655 0 85 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 165 145 0 15 0
Danish 80 70 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 5 0
Swedish 55 50 0 5 0
Afrikaans 60 55 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,735 1,530 0 145 60
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0 0
Bulgarian 125 105 0 15 5
Croatian 110 100 0 10 0
Czech 165 150 0 15 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 430 360 0 50 15
Russian 380 330 0 30 20
Serbian 110 105 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 50 40 0 5 5
Slovak 235 215 0 10 5
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 70 65 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 5 5
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 5
Greek 105 95 0 10 5
Armenian 75 60 0 15 5
Albanian 20 15 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 255 220 0 25 10
Estonian 15 10 0 5 0
Finnish 50 45 0 0 5
Hungarian 190 160 0 25 10
Turkic languages 150 125 0 10 15
Azerbaijani 20 15 0 0 5
Turkish 135 110 0 10 15
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 230 185 0 40 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 225 185 0 40 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 170 130 0 35 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,170 3,615 10 230 320
Indo-Aryan languages 700 625 0 30 45
Bengali 15 15 0 0 0
Gujarati 165 155 0 10 10
Hindi 85 80 0 5 0
Konkani 5 10 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 330 280 0 5 40
Sindhi 50 45 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0 0
Urdu 40 35 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 3,465 2,985 10 200 270
Kurdish 65 60 0 5 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,390 2,920 5 195 265
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 5
Tamil 30 25 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 510 465 0 10 30
Korean 1,175 1,000 0 30 145
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,275 1,110 0 30 135
Chinese languages 1,270 1,110 0 25 135
Cantonese 405 360 0 5 35
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 15 10 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 380 335 0 10 35
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 420 355 0 5 60
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 35 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 35 25 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,785 1,760 0 10 20
Bisayan languages 80 80 0 0 5
Ilocano 155 155 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampango 25 20 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,465 1,445 0 10 10
Bikol 10 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 30 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 15 0 5 0
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. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,140 875 0 260 0
English and French 160 25 0 135 0
English and non-official language 875 820 0 50 5
French and non-official language 70 20 0 50 0
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 25 0

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

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