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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 Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 Delta, DMFootnote 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 99,110 88,920 25 7,135 3,030
Single responses 97,055 87,180 25 6,830 3,015
English 69,455 64,415 5 5,005 35
French 910 110 10 795 0
Non-official languages 26,685 22,650 15 1,030 2,990
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 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 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 0 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 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,745 1,440 5 165 135
Italian 400 350 0 40 10
Portuguese 330 290 0 30 15
Romanian 130 90 0 25 10
Spanish 885 700 0 75 105
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,520 2,340 0 175 10
Dutch 545 505 0 40 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,605 1,490 0 110 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 5
Scandinavian languages 295 280 0 15 0
Danish 135 125 0 10 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 65 55 0 5 0
Swedish 95 90 0 5 0
Afrikaans 60 60 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,400 1,275 0 95 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5 0
Croatian 135 130 0 0 5
Czech 150 140 0 10 5
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 360 320 5 35 0
Russian 315 280 0 20 15
Serbian 90 80 0 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 20 25 0 0 0
Slovak 70 60 0 10 0
Slovenian 35 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 170 165 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 20 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 5 0
Greek 290 270 0 10 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 325 295 0 30 0
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 105 90 0 10 0
Hungarian 195 180 0 20 0
Turkic languages 60 50 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 55 45 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 215 165 0 40 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 10 15 0 0 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 200 150 0 35 10
Amharic 5 5 0 5 0
Arabic 125 95 0 30 5
Hebrew 30 30 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 13,315 10,835 10 340 2,130
Indo-Aryan languages 13,080 10,620 5 335 2,120
Bengali 55 45 0 0 0
Gujarati 255 235 0 5 15
Hindi 1,590 1,455 0 40 100
Konkani 10 15 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10,590 8,330 5 270 1,975
Sindhi 40 40 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 0 0
Urdu 485 445 0 15 25
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 205 185 5 5 10
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 45 40 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 145 130 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 265 245 0 5 15
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 135 0 5 5
Tamil 50 45 0 0 5
Telugu 50 40 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 335 315 0 15 15
Korean 265 235 0 5 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,110 3,440 5 110 565
Chinese languages 4,075 3,410 0 105 560
Cantonese 1,015 855 0 25 140
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 25 20 0 0 0
Hakka 25 25 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,650 1,380 0 45 225
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 115 90 0 5 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,235 1,030 0 30 170
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 30 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 55 45 0 5 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 145 120 0 0 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 115 95 0 0 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,440 1,425 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 55 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampango 5 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,215 1,205 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 35 35 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 35 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 5 0
Bantu languages 15 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 5 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 10 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. 20 15 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 15 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,060 1,745 5 300 10
English and French 175 30 0 140 0
English and non-official language 1,795 1,680 0 105 10
French and non-official language 55 30 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 35 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-XCB2011033.

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