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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 (2013 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 Abbotsford
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 95,465 87,305 25 4,535 3,595
Single responses 93,945 86,010 30 4,330 3,585
English 68,350 65,330 0 2,980 40
French 885 140 15 725 0
Non-official languages 24,715 20,540 10 625 3,545
Aboriginal languages 25 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 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 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 5 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 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 5 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 1,310 1,120 0 135 50
Italian 160 130 0 30 0
Portuguese 140 120 0 10 5
Romanian 195 155 0 35 15
Spanish 810 720 0 60 35
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 6,110 5,915 0 140 60
Dutch 1,140 1,100 0 40 0
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 45 40 0 5 0
German 4,575 4,450 0 70 55
Yiddish 0 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 210 205 0 10 0
Danish 120 115 0 5 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 35 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0 0
Afrikaans 115 110 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,030 965 0 40 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 5 0
Czech 65 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 285 275 0 5 10
Russian 270 250 0 10 15
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Slovak 35 30 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 210 200 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 60 55 0 5 5
Armenian 20 15 0 5 0
Albanian 60 55 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 315 305 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 80 75 0 0 0
Hungarian 225 220 0 10 0
Turkic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 315 275 0 30 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 310 270 0 30 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 285 250 0 25 10
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 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 11,700 8,560 5 170 2,970
Indo-Aryan languages 11,530 8,410 5 160 2,955
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 0
Hindi 255 240 0 5 10
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 11,125 8,025 0 150 2,945
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 5 0
Urdu 105 95 0 5 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 170 150 0 10 10
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 155 140 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 120 110 0 5 10
Korean 1,165 980 0 15 165
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,030 860 0 20 145
Chinese languages 1,015 850 0 20 145
Cantonese 210 160 0 5 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 330 285 0 0 40
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 470 390 0 15 65
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 195 170 0 5 15
Lao 160 140 0 5 15
Thai 30 35 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 360 295 0 10 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 345 285 5 10 50
Malayo-Polynesian languages 625 605 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 40 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 10 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 495 480 0 10 5
Bikol 5 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 20 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 55 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 50 40 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 25 20 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 5 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Creoles 30 15 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 5 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,515 1,295 5 205 15
English and French 155 40 0 110 0
English and non-official language 1,275 1,210 0 55 15
French and non-official language 60 40 0 15 5
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011055.

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