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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 Vancouver Kingsway
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 101,450 82,640 60 5,530 13,225
Single responses 97,440 78,970 55 5,230 13,190
English 35,840 32,470 5 3,275 90
French 790 70 20 705 5
Non-official languages 60,805 46,425 30 1,255 13,095
Aboriginal languages 40 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 10 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 5 0 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 5 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 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 5 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 10 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 5 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 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,875 3,295 5 305 270
Italian 1,145 1,000 0 75 70
Portuguese 1,200 1,020 0 70 105
Romanian 70 35 0 25 10
Spanish 1,455 1,230 0 135 90
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 930 820 0 105 10
Dutch 120 90 0 25 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 710 645 0 65 5
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 80 70 0 10 5
Danish 40 35 0 5 5
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 5 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,235 1,125 0 65 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0 5
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 220 210 0 5 0
Czech 55 50 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 320 290 0 20 5
Russian 225 195 0 15 15
Serbian 175 155 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 5 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 80 75 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 285 255 0 15 10
Armenian 35 30 0 10 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 165 150 0 15 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 110 100 0 10 0
Turkic languages 40 35 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 390 330 0 45 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 60 55 0 5 5
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 0 0 5
Semitic languages 325 270 5 40 15
Amharic 30 35 0 0 0
Arabic 200 160 5 30 10
Hebrew 65 55 0 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,860 4,310 0 100 450
Indo-Aryan languages 4,575 4,050 0 90 435
Bengali 110 100 0 5 5
Gujarati 210 185 0 5 15
Hindi 1,440 1,360 0 15 70
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,585 2,195 0 50 340
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 60 0 0 0
Urdu 85 85 0 0 5
Nepali 50 45 0 0 0
Iranian languages 280 245 5 10 25
Kurdish 55 55 0 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 205 180 0 10 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 490 425 0 20 45
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 55 0 5 0
Tamil 420 360 0 20 40
Telugu 15 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 780 695 0 5 80
Korean 660 595 0 10 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 33,165 21,710 15 370 11,065
Chinese languages 32,985 21,570 15 365 11,030
Cantonese 18,360 11,400 5 220 6,730
Chaochow (Teochow) 70 50 0 5 20
Fukien 125 85 0 0 40
Hakka 140 110 0 0 30
Mandarin 3,230 2,505 0 50 675
Shanghainese 70 45 0 0 20
Taiwanese 75 60 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 10,915 7,315 5 95 3,500
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 135 110 0 0 25
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 10
Tai languages 130 120 0 0 10
Lao 20 20 0 0 5
Thai 105 100 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 4,685 3,710 0 110 865
Khmer (Cambodian) 130 105 0 0 20
Vietnamese 4,555 3,600 0 105 840
Malayo-Polynesian languages 8,865 8,665 5 55 145
Bisayan languages 410 395 0 5 10
Ilocano 680 670 0 0 10
Malay 235 230 0 0 5
Pampango 60 60 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 7,280 7,150 0 45 85
Bikol 40 40 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 30 30 0 0 0
Pangasinan 35 35 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 90 65 0 0 30
Niger-Congo languages 70 45 0 15 10
Akan (Twi) 20 15 0 5 0
Bantu languages 30 25 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 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 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 20 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 30 10 0 5 20
American Sign Language 15 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0 15
Other languages 15 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 4,010 3,675 5 300 35
English and French 175 40 0 135 0
English and non-official language 3,695 3,560 0 110 25
French and non-official language 95 60 5 25 10
English, French and non-official language 50 15 0 30 5

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

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