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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 North Vancouver, DM
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 83,695 73,480 45 9,165 1,005
Single responses 82,325 72,495 40 8,790 1,000
English 62,405 56,030 0 6,360 15
French 1,045 70 30 945 0
Non-official languages 18,870 16,385 15 1,485 985
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 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 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 1,925 1,585 0 305 40
Italian 510 435 0 70 5
Portuguese 205 180 0 25 5
Romanian 125 75 5 45 10
Spanish 1,080 900 0 155 25
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 2,480 2,175 0 300 5
Dutch 340 285 0 55 0
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,635 1,420 0 205 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 335 320 0 15 0
Danish 135 130 0 10 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 75 75 0 0 0
Swedish 120 115 0 5 0
Afrikaans 155 145 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,800 1,580 0 190 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 50 40 0 10 5
Croatian 125 110 0 10 5
Czech 295 265 0 25 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 5 0
Polish 490 430 0 50 5
Russian 410 365 0 35 10
Serbian 55 50 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Slovak 180 160 0 15 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 5 0
Ukrainian 125 105 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Baltic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Greek 160 130 0 20 0
Armenian 120 95 0 20 10
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 355 320 0 35 5
Estonian 60 55 0 5 0
Finnish 80 75 0 0 0
Hungarian 225 190 0 25 5
Turkic languages 165 140 0 10 15
Azerbaijani 45 35 0 5 5
Turkish 120 100 0 5 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 215 160 0 50 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 210 160 0 50 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 155 110 0 45 5
Hebrew 55 45 0 5 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 5,250 4,565 5 365 320
Indo-Aryan languages 960 860 0 50 50
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 345 315 0 25 10
Hindi 110 105 0 0 0
Konkani 5 10 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 260 0 5 35
Sindhi 105 100 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 60 50 0 5 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 4,295 3,710 5 315 270
Kurdish 50 40 0 0 10
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 4,235 3,655 5 315 260
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 35 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 575 530 0 15 30
Korean 1,535 1,330 0 50 155
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,985 2,510 0 100 370
Chinese languages 2,975 2,505 0 100 370
Cantonese 1,105 955 0 40 110
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 5
Fukien 35 35 0 0 5
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 745 610 0 40 95
Shanghainese 10 0 0 0 5
Taiwanese 70 55 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,000 845 5 25 130
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Tai languages 35 35 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 40 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,060 1,055 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 55 0 0 0
Malay 45 45 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 910 905 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 0 0
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 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,370 985 5 380 5
English and French 210 20 0 190 0
English and non-official language 1,030 925 0 100 0
French and non-official language 85 35 0 50 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 40 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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