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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 North Vancouver
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 108,755 95,895 70 11,140 1,645
Single responses 106,610 94,290 65 10,615 1,640
English 76,055 68,815 5 7,210 30
French 1,475 100 35 1,340 0
Non-official languages 29,085 25,370 30 2,075 1,605
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 5 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. 10 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 5 0 0 5 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 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 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 15 15 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) 5 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,855 2,375 0 420 65
Italian 765 645 0 100 15
Portuguese 280 240 0 35 5
Romanian 285 180 0 100 5
Spanish 1,520 1,305 0 180 35
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,955 2,575 5 375 5
Dutch 425 350 0 75 0
Flemish 15 10 0 10 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 1,945 1,695 0 245 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 405 375 0 30 0
Danish 170 160 0 15 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 85 75 0 5 0
Swedish 150 135 0 10 0
Afrikaans 150 140 0 15 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,050 2,690 0 275 85
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0 0
Bulgarian 160 130 0 25 5
Croatian 180 165 0 10 5
Czech 380 350 0 25 5
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 780 680 0 85 20
Russian 700 605 0 60 30
Serbian 155 140 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 70 55 0 10 0
Slovak 375 345 5 25 5
Slovenian 35 30 0 10 0
Ukrainian 150 135 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 5
Baltic languages 45 35 0 5 0
Latvian 30 30 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Greek 240 205 0 35 5
Armenian 175 135 0 25 15
Albanian 35 30 0 5 0
Georgian 5 5 0 5 0
Finno-Ugric languages 525 460 0 55 15
Estonian 55 50 0 5 0
Finnish 110 105 0 5 5
Hungarian 355 305 0 40 10
Turkic languages 290 240 0 20 30
Azerbaijani 55 50 0 5 10
Turkish 230 195 0 15 25
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 365 280 0 80 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 365 280 0 80 10
Amharic 5 10 0 0 0
Arabic 270 190 0 70 5
Hebrew 55 50 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 8,805 7,645 15 540 610
Indo-Aryan languages 1,445 1,290 0 70 85
Bengali 25 20 0 0 0
Gujarati 445 400 0 30 15
Hindi 170 165 0 10 5
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 555 480 0 10 60
Sindhi 130 120 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0
Urdu 85 75 0 10 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 7,350 6,340 15 475 525
Kurdish 105 90 0 5 10
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 7,235 6,240 15 470 515
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 80 75 0 0 0
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 45 40 0 0 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 955 865 0 25 60
Korean 2,420 2,075 0 70 275
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,460 2,930 5 110 415
Chinese languages 3,445 2,920 0 110 415
Cantonese 1,130 985 0 35 100
Chaochow (Teochow) 15 10 0 0 0
Fukien 40 35 0 0 0
Hakka 15 15 0 5 0
Mandarin 970 820 0 40 110
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 90 75 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 980 0 25 180
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Tai languages 70 65 0 0 5
Lao 10 10 0 5 0
Thai 60 55 5 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,545 2,515 0 10 20
Bisayan languages 115 110 0 0 0
Ilocano 180 175 0 0 0
Malay 80 75 0 0 5
Pampango 20 20 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,125 2,100 0 15 15
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 40 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 30 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 25 20 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 10 5
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 15 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,140 1,605 5 525 5
English and French 310 45 0 265 0
English and non-official language 1,650 1,515 0 135 5
French and non-official language 115 40 0 75 0
English, French and non-official language 65 10 0 55 0

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

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