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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 South / Vancouver-Sud
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 99,655 83,125 45 4,425 12,065
Single responses 95,615 79,500 40 4,055 12,025
English 29,915 27,780 0 2,085 45
French 545 55 5 475 0
Non-official languages 65,160 51,665 30 1,490 11,975
Aboriginal languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 10 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 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 5 0 0 0 5
Carrier 0 5 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 5
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 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 5 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 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 2,735 2,355 5 190 180
Italian 500 450 0 35 15
Portuguese 410 360 0 25 20
Romanian 105 65 5 40 0
Spanish 1,715 1,475 0 95 140
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,135 1,060 5 70 10
Dutch 100 95 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 940 875 0 60 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 0 5
Scandinavian languages 70 65 0 5 0
Danish 35 30 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,335 1,185 0 75 80
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 200 190 0 5 5
Czech 70 60 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 385 330 0 30 20
Russian 355 295 0 25 40
Serbian 105 100 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 5 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 110 100 0 0 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 185 175 0 5 5
Armenian 25 20 0 5 5
Albanian 15 15 0 5 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 220 195 0 15 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 5
Hungarian 160 145 0 5 5
Turkic languages 95 80 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 15 15 0 0 0
Turkish 80 65 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 460 370 5 60 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 40 0 0 5
Oromo 25 20 0 0 5
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages 410 330 0 50 25
Amharic 70 65 0 5 5
Arabic 235 175 5 45 15
Hebrew 60 55 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 14,250 11,775 5 330 2,140
Indo-Aryan languages 13,760 11,340 5 310 2,100
Bengali 400 370 0 10 20
Gujarati 320 290 0 5 30
Hindi 1,575 1,480 0 25 65
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10,960 8,730 5 260 1,970
Sindhi 35 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0 0
Urdu 325 300 0 10 20
Nepali 60 55 0 0 0
Iranian languages 465 405 0 20 40
Kurdish 115 100 0 0 10
Pashto 85 70 0 5 10
Persian (Farsi) 265 235 0 15 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 910 825 0 20 60
Kannada 10 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 205 190 0 5 10
Tamil 655 595 0 15 45
Telugu 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Japanese 575 525 0 5 45
Korean 810 680 0 35 100
Sino-Tibetan languages 33,025 23,745 15 540 8,725
Chinese languages 32,915 23,640 15 540 8,715
Cantonese 17,675 12,450 5 300 4,920
Chaochow (Teochow) 65 40 0 0 30
Fukien 110 95 0 0 20
Hakka 90 75 0 0 15
Mandarin 3,660 2,770 0 60 830
Shanghainese 105 60 0 5 45
Taiwanese 275 205 0 0 70
Chinese, n.o.s. 10,925 7,945 10 175 2,795
Tibetan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 85 80 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tai languages 80 70 0 0 5
Lao 25 20 0 0 5
Thai 55 55 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,480 1,980 0 45 450
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 0 10
Vietnamese 2,390 1,910 5 45 435
Malayo-Polynesian languages 6,590 6,435 0 50 100
Bisayan languages 270 270 0 0 0
Ilocano 470 450 0 0 15
Malay 160 155 0 0 0
Pampango 65 60 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5,460 5,355 0 40 60
Bikol 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 35 35 0 0 5
Pangasinan 25 25 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 85 65 0 0 20
Niger-Congo languages 105 85 5 20 5
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 55 40 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 15 0 0 5
Ganda 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 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. 15 10 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 35 10 0 5 15
American Sign Language 15 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 10
Other languages 15 10 0 0 5
Multiple responses 4,040 3,625 5 370 45
English and French 130 25 0 105 0
English and non-official language 3,745 3,535 5 180 30
French and non-official language 120 55 0 50 10
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 45 0

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

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