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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 New Westminster--BurnabyFootnote 1
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 107,140 95,500 75 7,095 4,470
Single responses 103,895 92,660 60 6,725 4,455
English 57,655 53,645 5 3,955 45
French 1,145 135 25 990 5
Non-official languages 45,095 38,885 30 1,785 4,405
Aboriginal languages 45 45 0 0 0
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 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 5 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 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 5 5 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 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. 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,235 3,500 5 535 200
Italian 715 640 0 70 5
Portuguese 565 515 0 40 20
Romanian 930 625 0 245 55
Spanish 2,025 1,720 0 180 120
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,505 1,390 0 115 5
Dutch 385 350 0 35 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 880 810 0 65 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 200 190 0 10 0
Danish 70 70 0 0 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 0 0
Swedish 65 60 0 5 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 4,755 4,180 5 340 240
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 210 195 0 5 10
Bulgarian 295 230 0 50 10
Croatian 355 335 0 10 10
Czech 160 145 0 5 5
Macedonian 30 25 0 5 0
Polish 765 695 0 50 20
Russian 1,310 1,125 5 80 110
Serbian 1,005 865 0 90 50
Serbo-Croatian 170 165 0 5 5
Slovak 145 135 0 10 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 5 0
Ukrainian 260 230 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 5
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 25 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 165 145 0 15 5
Armenian 15 15 0 5 0
Albanian 160 145 0 5 5
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 540 495 0 30 15
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 90 80 0 5 0
Hungarian 425 385 0 25 10
Turkic languages 205 185 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 0
Turkish 135 125 0 5 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 45 50 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,395 1,120 5 125 150
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 105 95 0 0 5
Oromo 50 45 0 0 5
Somali 55 50 0 0 5
Semitic languages 1,290 1,025 5 120 140
Amharic 200 190 0 0 5
Arabic 925 690 5 115 115
Hebrew 20 15 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 140 120 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 9,130 7,935 0 185 1,010
Indo-Aryan languages 7,090 6,190 0 135 760
Bengali 235 220 0 5 5
Gujarati 415 380 0 10 20
Hindi 1,205 1,130 0 30 45
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 35 30 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 4,760 4,010 0 65 685
Sindhi 100 90 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 75 65 0 5 0
Urdu 240 220 0 10 5
Nepali 35 30 0 0 0
Iranian languages 2,010 1,715 0 50 250
Kurdish 120 105 0 0 10
Pashto 105 95 0 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 1,785 1,515 0 50 225
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 280 245 0 5 20
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 0
Tamil 205 180 0 0 20
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 640 595 0 10 30
Korean 2,385 1,970 0 35 380
Sino-Tibetan languages 12,920 10,510 0 240 2,170
Chinese languages 12,870 10,470 0 235 2,170
Cantonese 3,575 2,905 0 55 620
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 10 0 0 5
Fukien 80 70 0 0 10
Hakka 30 25 0 0 5
Mandarin 4,745 3,880 0 100 765
Shanghainese 45 25 0 0 20
Taiwanese 255 190 0 0 55
Chinese, n.o.s. 4,125 3,365 0 75 690
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 110 105 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 0
Thai 95 90 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 540 445 0 20 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 520 425 0 15 75
Malayo-Polynesian languages 5,530 5,420 0 55 55
Bisayan languages 230 220 0 0 5
Ilocano 200 195 0 0 0
Malay 215 205 0 0 5
Pampango 45 45 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,725 4,640 0 50 40
Bikol 25 25 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 25 25 0 0 0
Pangasinan 25 20 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 275 205 10 45 15
Akan (Twi) 50 40 0 5 0
Bantu languages 155 105 5 30 15
Lingala 10 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 10 15 0 0 0
Swahili 75 45 0 15 10
Ganda 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 15 20 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. 50 30 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 125 115 0 0 5
Creoles 25 15 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 45 30 0 0 20
American Sign Language 25 15 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 10 0 0 10
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,245 2,840 15 370 20
English and French 190 40 0 145 0
English and non-official language 2,870 2,730 0 125 15
French and non-official language 135 60 15 55 5
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 45 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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