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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 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 7,130 3,030
Single responses 97,050 87,180 25 6,835 3,020
English 69,455 64,415 5 5,005 30
French 910 115 10 795 0
Non-official languages 26,685 22,650 15 1,035 2,985
Aboriginal languages 10 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 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,745 1,440 5 165 135
Italian 400 350 0 35 10
Portuguese 335 290 0 30 10
Romanian 130 90 0 25 10
Spanish 885 700 5 70 105
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,520 2,340 0 175 5
Dutch 545 500 0 40 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,605 1,490 0 110 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 300 280 0 15 0
Danish 135 130 0 10 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 60 60 0 5 0
Swedish 95 90 0 5 0
Afrikaans 60 55 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,405 1,275 0 95 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5 0
Croatian 135 130 0 5 5
Czech 150 140 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 365 320 0 40 0
Russian 310 275 0 25 15
Serbian 90 75 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 70 60 0 5 0
Slovenian 40 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 175 165 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 20 0 10 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 290 275 0 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 325 300 0 25 0
Estonian 30 25 0 0 0
Finnish 105 95 0 10 5
Hungarian 195 175 0 15 0
Turkic languages 60 50 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 55 45 0 10 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 220 165 5 40 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 200 155 0 35 10
Amharic 10 5 0 5 5
Arabic 130 90 0 30 5
Hebrew 35 30 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 13,310 10,835 10 345 2,130
Indo-Aryan languages 13,080 10,620 5 335 2,115
Bengali 50 45 0 5 5
Gujarati 255 235 0 5 15
Hindi 1,590 1,455 0 40 100
Konkani 15 10 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10,585 8,330 5 270 1,975
Sindhi 40 40 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 5
Urdu 485 450 0 10 25
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 205 190 0 5 15
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 45 40 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 145 130 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 265 245 0 5 15
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 140 0 5 5
Tamil 50 45 0 0 0
Telugu 50 40 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 340 315 0 15 10
Korean 265 235 0 5 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,110 3,440 5 105 565
Chinese languages 4,075 3,410 0 105 560
Cantonese 1,020 855 0 25 135
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 20 25 0 0 0
Hakka 25 25 0 0 5
Mandarin 1,650 1,380 0 45 225
Shanghainese 10 10 0 0 0
Taiwanese 115 90 0 5 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,235 1,030 5 35 170
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 25 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 55 45 0 5 5
Lao 15 10 0 0 0
Thai 45 35 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 145 125 0 0 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 115 100 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,440 1,425 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 55 0 0 5
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampango 10 5 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 40 35 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 15 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 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 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 5
Creoles 15 0 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,065 1,745 0 305 10
English and French 170 30 0 145 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 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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