Table 4
Extinction table of immigrant languages as mother tongues from first to third generation in Canada, 1981 and 2006

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Table 4
Extinction table of immigrant languages as mother tongues from first to third generation in Canada, 1981 and 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Extinction table of immigrant languages as mother tongues from first to third generation in Canada. This information is grouped by Mother's mother tongue, Generation, First, Second and Third (appearing as column headers), calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Mother's mother tongue Generation
First Second Third
percentage
German 100 24 5
Portuguese 100 56 8
Spanish 100 41 12
Italian 100 52 11
Greek 100 62 26
Serbo-Croatian1 100 51 12
Polish 100 34 6
Hungarian 100 27 3
Pundjabi (Pandjabi) 100 64 33
Chinese2 100 61 14
Other languages 100 19 4
Total 100 41 10
1. Includes Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian and Bosniac.
2. Chinese languages: Chinese (not otherwise specified), Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Shanghainese and Taiwanese.
Source: Statistics Canada, 1981 and 2006 Censuses of Population.
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