Chart 3 Percentage of the female population with selected mother tongues, Canada, 2006
Mother tongue1 percentage of female population
with selected single responses
mother tongues, 2006
English 57.6
French 22.2
Chinese2 3.4
German 1.5
Italian 1.4
Punjabi 1.2
Spanish 1.1
Tagalog (Pilipino) 0.9
Arabic 0.8
Portuguese 0.7
Polish 0.7
Total Aboriginal 0.7
Ukranian 0.5
1. Includes only single responses.
2. Chinese language includes Cantonese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Hakka, Mandarin,
Shanghainese, Taiwanese and other.
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.