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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Abbotsford, CYFootnote 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 131,820 118,290 40 5,865 7,630
Single responses 129,430 116,215 40 5,590 7,590
English 86,665 82,825 0 3,780 60
French 1,095 165 25 905 0
Non-official languages 41,670 33,230 20 900 7,525
Aboriginal languages 30 35 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 10 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 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 5 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 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 10 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 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 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 1,590 1,355 0 160 75
Italian 195 165 0 30 5
Portuguese 165 145 0 15 10
Romanian 235 180 0 40 15
Spanish 980 865 0 70 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 7,655 7,405 5 180 65
Dutch 1,475 1,420 0 55 0
Flemish 15 5 0 10 0
Frisian 60 55 0 0 0
German 5,695 5,540 0 90 60
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 270 260 0 10 0
Danish 150 145 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 5 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0 0
Afrikaans 135 125 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,230 1,150 0 45 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0 5
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 0 0
Czech 70 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 350 330 0 10 10
Russian 320 295 0 10 10
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 5 0
Slovak 40 40 0 5 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 5 0
Ukrainian 255 235 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 70 60 0 5 0
Armenian 20 20 0 5 0
Albanian 70 60 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 365 350 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 100 90 0 5 0
Hungarian 255 245 0 5 0
Turkic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 335 290 0 25 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 335 290 0 30 15
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 300 260 0 30 10
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 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 25,545 18,410 5 340 6,790
Indo-Aryan languages 25,335 18,230 10 330 6,775
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0 0
Hindi 430 390 0 15 20
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 24,660 17,610 10 305 6,740
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 165 150 0 0 10
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 205 175 0 15 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 185 160 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 50 45 0 0 5
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 180 160 0 0 15
Korean 1,310 1,110 0 25 180
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,275 1,040 0 30 205
Chinese languages 1,265 1,030 0 35 205
Cantonese 275 210 0 10 55
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 375 320 0 5 50
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 600 485 0 15 95
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 275 245 0 10 20
Lao 230 205 0 10 20
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 640 525 5 15 100
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 15 0 5 5
Vietnamese 620 510 0 10 95
Malayo-Polynesian languages 740 720 0 15 5
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 10 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 580 565 0 10 10
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 20 20 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 100 80 0 10 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 60 5 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 30 25 0 5 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Creoles 40 20 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 10
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,390 2,070 5 275 40
English and French 185 50 0 135 0
English and non-official language 2,090 1,960 0 90 35
French and non-official language 80 50 0 20 5
English, French and non-official language 45 15 0 30 5

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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-XCB2011035.

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