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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, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 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 12,815 10,610 5 1,255 950
Single responses 12,485 10,335 5 1,210 940
English 4,680 4,005 0 665 10
French 155 5 5 145 0
Non-official languages 7,645 6,320 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 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 5 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 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 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 5 5 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 395 300 0 75 20
Italian 25 10 0 10 0
Portuguese 65 55 0 5 5
Romanian 25 25 0 5 0
Spanish 275 210 0 55 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 200 0 60 5
Dutch 45 35 0 15 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 165 125 0 40 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 35 35 0 5 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 260 210 0 40 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 5 0
Polish 45 35 0 10 0
Russian 120 100 0 15 10
Serbian 20 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 20 20 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 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 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 10 0 5 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 310 275 0 15 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 305 275 0 15 20
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 215 180 0 15 15
Hebrew 95 90 0 0 5
Maltese 5 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 35 15
Indo-Aryan languages 240 230 0 5 5
Bengali 40 35 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 65 65 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 385 345 0 25 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 370 340 0 25 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 55 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 145 115 0 10 25
Korean 1,060 940 0 35 85
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,195 3,345 5 100 745
Chinese languages 4,195 3,345 0 100 750
Cantonese 410 350 0 15 45
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,985 1,525 0 50 410
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 35 25 0 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,735 1,425 0 30 280
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 30 0 0 0
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 100 100 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 5
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 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 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 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 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 5 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 335 275 0 45 5
English and French 35 10 0 20 0
English and non-official language 280 255 0 15 5
French and non-official language 20 5 5 10 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-XCB2011033.

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