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Table 1
Population of immigrant mother tongue families, showing main languages comprising each family, Canada, 2011^{Footnote 1}

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This table displays the results of table 1 population of immigrant mother tongue families. The information is grouped by language family (appearing as row headers), main languages, number and percentage (appearing as column headers).

Table 1 Population of immigrant mother tongue families, showing main languages comprising each family, Canada, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 1 population of immigrant mother tongue families. The information is grouped by language family (appearing as row headers), main languages, number and percentage (appearing as column headers).
Language family	Main languages	Number	Percentage
Niger-Congo languages	Akan, Swahili, Rundi	81,135	1.2
Cushitic languages	Somali, Oromo	45,880	0.7
Semitic languages	Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic	449,580	6.6
Turkic languages	Turkish, Azerbaijani	36,750	0.5
Armenian	Armenian	31,680	0.5
Indo-Iranian languages	Punjabi, Urdu, Persian, Gujarati, Hindi	1,179,990	17.3
Dravidian languages	Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu	175,280	2.6
Chinese languages	Chinese (n.o.s.^{Footnote 2}), Cantonese, Mandarin	1,112,610	16.3
Tibeto-Burman languages	Tibetan, Burmese	8,210	0.1
Korean	Korean	142,880	2.1
Japanese	Japanese	43,040	0.6
Malayo-Polynesian languages	Tagalog, Ilocano, Malay	443,750	6.5
Tai-Kadai languages	Lao, Thai	22,615	0.3
Austro-Asiatic languages	Vietnamese, Khmer	174,455	2.6
Romance languages	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese	1,196,390	17.5
Germanic languages	German, Dutch, Yiddish	611,165	8.9
Slavic languages	Polish, Russian, Ukrainian	721,605	10.6
Baltic languages	Lithuanian, Latvian	14,055	0.2
Finno-Ugric languages	Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian	96,200	1.4
Celtic languages	Welsh	3,885	0.1
Greek	Greek	117,890	1.7
Albanian	Albanian	25,010	0.4
Creole languages	Haitian Creole	75,255	1.1
Other languages	Kabyle, Georgian, Mongol	29,410	0.4
All immigrant languages		6,838,705	100
Footnotes Footnote 1 Language families are listed according to major region of origin: African and Middle Eastern languages are shown first, followed by Asian languages (Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Southeast Asia), European languages and, finally, Creole languages, which come mainly from the Americas but are also found in other regions such as the Indian Ocean. Return to footnote 1 referrer Footnote 2 n.o.s. means 'not otherwise specified.' Return to footnote 2 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011.

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Table 1
Population of immigrant mother tongue families, showing main languages comprising each family, Canada, 2011^{Footnote 1}

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Table 1 Population of immigrant mother tongue families, showing main languages comprising each family, Canada, 2011Footnote 1

Table 1
Population of immigrant mother tongue families, showing main languages comprising each family, Canada, 2011^{Footnote 1}