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Population by Asian Mother Tongue by Selected Metropolitan Areas

Chinese is the most common Asian mother tongue in the ten metropolitan areas, except Winnipeg, where Tagalog (Philipino) is the largest group. In Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto, Punjabi is the second most common Asian mother tongue. In Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal and Quebec, Vietnamese is the second most commonly spoken Asian mother tongue.

Population by Asian Mother Tongue by Selected Metropolitan Areas
Western Canada
	Vancouver	Edmonton	Calgary	Saskatoon	Winnipeg
Chinese*	324,835	37,990	54,260	3,430	10,395
Punjabi	116,635	13,905	21,185	265	6,130
Tagalog (Filipino)	45,830	11,460	14,795	1,120	22,055
Vietnamese	20,720	7,720	10,890	395	2,665
Tamil	2,925	435	765	120	270
Korean	41,325	3,260	6,370	75	1,850
Urdu	6,515	3,450	7,110	145	1,035
Gujarati	6,080	2,185	3,835	85	660
Hindi	22,025	4,925	3,635	170	990
Japanese	15,275	1,020	1,985	145	675
Bengali	1,475	625	1,980	140	320
Other*	19,620	6,115	9,485	885	3,960

Total	623,260	93,090	136,295	6,975	51,005
Central & Eastern Canada
	Toronto	Ottawa-Gatineau	Montreal	Quebec	Halifax
Chinese*	410,860	26,320	59,130	875	2,400
Punjabi	132,745	3,135	11,735	40	305
Tagalog (Filipino)	100,425	3,885	11,495	55	360
Vietnamese	45,325	6,535	23,235	845	340
Tamil	93,590	2,120	11,525	-	60
Korean	47,750	1,800	3,755	25	680
Urdu	98,575	3,610	9,435	80	350
Gujarati	54,165	1,080	5,920	45	150
Hindi	33,550	2,065	2,455	55	235
Japanese	8,690	885	1,615	120	235
Bengali	25,060	2,500	9,480	65	290
Other**	62,660	6,100	18,630	420	520

Total	1,113,395	60,035	168,410	2,625	5,925

Source: Detailed Mother Tongue. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 4 December 2007. 2006 Census of Canada. Catalogue number 97-555-XCB2006007. 13 April 2009.

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Notes: 1. Mother tongue refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
2. Figures are taken from the single response category.
* The figures for Chinese include Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien and Shanghainese, as well as Chinese languages not otherwise specified.
** Other Asian Mother Tongue includes: Konkani, Marathi, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Pashto, Indo-Iranian languages (not specified), Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Dravidian languages (not specified), Tibetan languages (not specified), Sino-Tibetan languages (not specified), Lao, Thai, Khmer (Cambodian), Bisayan languages (not specified), Ilocano, Malay-Bahasa, Pampango and Malayo-Polynesian languages (not specified).