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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Fraser Valley
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 273,480 261,885 2,565 540 8,490 2,840 1.0
Single responses 266,160 254,810 2,425 435 8,490 2,640 1.0
English 233,620 231,685 1,940 0 0 1,935 0.8
French 535 75 460 0 0 460 86.0
Non-official languages 32,005 23,050 30 435 8,490 245 0.8
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Halkomelem 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lillooet 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Romance languages 1,310 1,080 5 95 135 50 3.8
Italian 65 60 0 0 5 0 0.0
Portuguese 60 45 0 10 10 5 8.3
Romanian 300 240 0 35 30 15 5.0
Spanish 885 735 0 55 95 30 3.4
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 2,120 1,940 0 70 110 35 1.7
Dutch 405 370 0 20 15 10 2.5
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
German 1,525 1,400 0 40 95 15 1.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 40 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afrikaans 140 135 0 5 5 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 715 625 0 30 55 15 2.1
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Czech 50 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Polish 220 195 5 15 15 10 4.5
Russian 235 205 0 5 25 5 2.1
Serbian 30 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slovak 35 30 0 5 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0 10 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Greek 45 40 0 5 0 5 11.1
Armenian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Albanian 65 55 0 0 15 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 175 165 0 5 5 5 2.9
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 50 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hungarian 125 120 0 5 5 5 4.0
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 20 20 0 0 0 5 25.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Afro-Asiatic languages 200 175 0 5 15 5 2.5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 200 170 0 5 20 5 2.5
Amharic 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 180 155 0 5 15 5 2.8
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Indo-Iranian languages 22,980 15,405 10 175 7,385 95 0.4
Indo-Aryan languages 22,740 15,200 5 170 7,365 95 0.4
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hindi 300 275 0 5 20 0 0.0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Panjabi (Punjabi) 22,295 14,795 5 160 7,330 85 0.4
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 105 95 0 0 10 0 0.0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 235 205 0 5 25 5 2.1
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 205 180 0 5 15 5 2.4
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 145 125 0 0 15 0 0.0
Korean 1,600 1,340 0 20 240 15 0.9
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,240 920 0 15 305 10 0.8
Chinese languages 1,235 920 0 10 305 10 0.8
Cantonese 235 160 0 0 70 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 435 340 0 5 90 5 1.1
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 560 410 0 10 135 5 0.9
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 140 110 0 5 20 0 0.0
Lao 115 90 0 0 20 0 0.0
Thai 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 630 490 0 5 130 5 0.8
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 615 475 0 5 125 5 0.8
Malayo-Polynesian languages 370 360 0 0 10 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 15 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 305 290 0 0 10 0 0.0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 0 0 5 5 33.3
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages 15 5 0 0 0 5 33.3
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 5 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 5 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Creoles 10 5 5 5 0 10 100.0
Non-verbal languages 80 55 0 0 25 0 0.0
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 70 50 0 0 20 0 0.0
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 7,320 7,075 145 105 0 195 2.7
English and French 230 60 120 55 0 150 65.2
English and non-official language 6,965 6,960 5 0 0 0 0.0
French and non-official language 35 20 10 0 0 15 42.9
English, French and non-official language 85 25 5 50 0 30 35.3

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011039.

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