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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 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 131,825 118,290 45 5,860 7,630
Single responses 129,430 116,220 35 5,590 7,590
English 86,665 82,825 0 3,785 60
French 1,095 170 25 910 0
Non-official languages 41,675 33,230 15 900 7,525
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 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 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 5 10 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 5 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 5 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) 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,585 1,360 0 155 70
Italian 200 165 0 30 0
Portuguese 165 145 0 15 5
Romanian 235 180 0 40 15
Spanish 985 865 0 65 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 7,650 7,405 0 180 65
Dutch 1,480 1,420 0 55 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 60 55 0 0 0
German 5,695 5,540 0 90 65
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 270 260 0 10 0
Danish 150 145 0 10 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 0 0
Swedish 55 50 0 0 0
Afrikaans 135 125 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,230 1,150 0 50 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 45 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 5 0
Czech 70 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 355 330 5 15 10
Russian 320 295 0 10 10
Serbian 40 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 5
Slovak 40 40 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 255 240 0 5 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 70 60 0 10 0
Armenian 20 15 0 5 0
Albanian 70 55 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 365 350 0 10 5
Estonian 10 15 0 0 0
Finnish 95 95 0 5 5
Hungarian 250 245 0 5 0
Turkic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 335 295 0 25 15
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 330 295 0 25 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 305 260 0 25 10
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 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 25,550 18,405 10 340 6,790
Indo-Aryan languages 25,335 18,230 5 325 6,775
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0 5
Hindi 430 390 0 15 20
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 24,655 17,610 5 305 6,740
Sindhi 10 15 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0
Urdu 165 150 5 0 10
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 205 175 0 15 15
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 185 160 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 50 50 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 180 160 0 5 15
Korean 1,315 1,110 5 25 180
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,275 1,040 0 30 205
Chinese languages 1,260 1,030 0 30 200
Cantonese 275 210 0 10 55
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 5
Fukien 10 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 375 320 0 5 50
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 595 485 0 20 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 275 250 5 10 20
Lao 235 205 0 5 20
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 635 525 0 15 100
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 5 5
Vietnamese 615 510 0 15 95
Malayo-Polynesian languages 740 720 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 45 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 5 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 580 565 0 10 5
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 20 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 100 75 5 15 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 60 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 30 30 0 5 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 0
Creoles 35 25 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 30 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,390 2,075 5 275 40
English and French 185 55 0 135 0
English and non-official language 2,085 1,960 0 90 40
French and non-official language 75 50 0 25 5
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 30 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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