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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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 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 Vancouver Island North / Île de Vancouver-Nord
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 117,600 108,595 60 8,680 265
Single responses 116,765 108,050 60 8,395 265
English 107,010 101,015 0 5,970 30
French 2,290 285 50 1,960 0
Non-official languages 7,465 6,760 5 465 230
Aboriginal languages 540 540 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 35 30 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 30 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 5 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 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 50 50 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 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. 45 45 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 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 385 380 0 5 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 10 15 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 370 365 0 5 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 5 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. 60 60 0 0 0
Romance languages 775 655 5 90 20
Italian 220 185 0 30 0
Portuguese 125 115 0 10 0
Romanian 30 15 0 5 5
Spanish 400 340 5 40 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,985 2,730 0 240 10
Dutch 625 565 0 55 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 15 0 0 0
German 1,870 1,700 0 165 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 385 370 0 10 0
Danish 205 200 0 5 5
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 75 70 0 5 0
Swedish 95 85 0 5 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 760 705 0 50 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5 0
Croatian 80 75 0 5 0
Czech 115 110 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 200 185 0 10 5
Russian 85 75 0 15 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 25 25 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 185 175 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 45 40 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 320 310 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 5 0
Finnish 195 185 0 5 0
Hungarian 120 110 0 5 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 45 35 0 10 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 40 30 0 5 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 5 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 245 210 0 10 25
Indo-Aryan languages 215 185 0 10 20
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 5
Hindi 20 15 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 140 125 0 5 10
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 140 130 0 0 5
Korean 160 130 0 5 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 510 440 0 5 65
Chinese languages 500 430 0 5 65
Cantonese 180 140 0 5 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 50 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 250 225 0 5 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 45 45 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 40 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 320 240 0 15 60
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 5 0
Vietnamese 315 240 0 15 60
Malayo-Polynesian languages 450 445 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 55 50 0 5 0
Ilocano 30 25 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 345 340 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 10 0 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 0 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 835 545 5 285 0
English and French 280 60 5 215 0
English and non-official language 495 460 0 30 5
French and non-official language 35 20 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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