Table 1
Proportion of children aged less than 18, born in Canada, with the same mother tongue, same language spoken at home or some knowledge of their mother's mother tongue, 2006

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Table 1
Proportion of children aged less than 18, born in Canada, with the same mother tongue, same language spoken at home or some knowledge of their mother's mother tongue, 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Proportion of children aged less than 18 born in Canada, with the same mother tongue. This information is grouped by Mother's mother tongue, Same mother tongue, Mother's mother tongue spoken at home, and Some knowledge of the mother's mother tongue (appearing as column headers),
calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Mother's mother tongue Child's language
Same mother tongue Mother's mother tongue spoken at home1 Some knowledge of the mother's mother tongue
percentage
Dutch 15 13 20
German 43 41 48
Portuguese 35 38 48
Spanish 53 62 70
Romanian 64 65 71
Italian 20 16 30
Greek 42 45 59
Armenian 75 72 77
Russian 64 62 68
Serbo-Croatian2 62 65 72
Czech 21 25 29
Polish 64 64 72
Ukrainian 66 63 72
Slovak 38 38 47
Hungarian 43 40 48
Creoles 12 21 39
Turkish 69 70 76
Arabic 55 62 71
Hebrew 33 33 48
Amharic 27 30 36
Somali 48 54 62
Akan (Twi) 21 27 37
Persian (Farsi) 71 70 79
Pundjabi (Pandjabi) 81 80 89
Gujarati 64 59 69
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 24 29 31
Hindi 50 51 65
Urdu 76 76 84
Bengali 73 76 82
Malayalam 32 37 44
Tamil 65 72 81
Japanese 52 64 67
Korean 54 55 60
Chinese3 70 71 78
Lao 37 37 48
Vietnamese 61 63 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 40 49
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 16 22
Ilocano 9 8 10
Other languages 31 33 37
1. Language most often or regularly spoken at home.
2. Includes Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian and Bosniac.
3. Chinese languages: Chinese (not otherwise specified), Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Shanghainese and Taiwanese.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population
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