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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, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 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 ChilliwackFootnote 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 90,735 86,215 25 4,140 355
Single responses 89,895 85,540 25 3,980 355
English 78,710 76,085 0 2,610 10
French 1,200 180 15 1,005 0
Non-official languages 9,980 9,270 5 365 345
Aboriginal languages 80 75 0 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Carrier 5 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 0
Gwich'in 5 5 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 35 30 0 5 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 15 0 0 0
Lillooet 10 10 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 10 10 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 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) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Romance languages 950 815 0 80 50
Italian 125 105 0 20 0
Portuguese 80 65 0 15 5
Romanian 190 165 0 15 15
Spanish 555 490 0 30 35
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,230 5,035 0 160 40
Dutch 1,915 1,850 0 55 15
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 20 20 0 5 0
German 2,960 2,845 0 90 25
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 220 220 0 5 0
Danish 135 135 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 40 0 0 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0 0
Afrikaans 110 95 0 5 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 805 760 0 40 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 0 0
Czech 70 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 195 175 0 15 0
Russian 145 135 0 10 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 230 220 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 0 5
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 5
Greek 65 60 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 260 250 0 10 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 90 85 0 5 5
Hungarian 165 160 0 10 0
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 95 90 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 85 80 0 5 0
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 45 40 0 5 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 795 710 0 25 65
Indo-Aryan languages 690 615 0 20 60
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 95 95 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 525 450 0 15 60
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 5 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 105 95 0 0 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 95 0 0 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 95 95 0 5 0
Korean 400 350 0 5 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 540 435 0 10 90
Chinese languages 540 435 0 10 90
Cantonese 85 65 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 190 155 0 5 35
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 235 195 0 5 40
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 145 120 0 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 150 120 0 5 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 330 325 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 270 265 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 5 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 845 680 0 165 0
English and French 175 55 5 120 0
English and non-official language 610 580 0 30 0
French and non-official language 50 40 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011031.

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