{"id":16,"date":"2026-08-10T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-08-11T00:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:17:42","slug":"language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/demographics\/language\/","title":{"rendered":"Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the 2021 Canadian census, 612,215 persons, or 94.1% of Vancouver&#8217;s population, know the English language; 96,965 persons or 14.9% of the population, know the Cantonese language, followed by Mandarin (74,695 or 11.5%), French (60,990 or 9.4%), Tagalog (30,430 or 4.7%), Punjabi (19,130 or 2.9%), Hindi (15,025 or 2.3%), Vietnamese (14,905 or 2.3%), Persian languages (12,330 or 1.9%), Japanese (12,075 or 1.9%), German (11,050 or 1.7%), Korean (10,480 or 1.6%), Portuguese (8,715 or 1.3%), Italian (7,740 or 1.2%), and Russian (7,620 or 1.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the 2021 census stated 332,135 persons or 50.7% of Vancouver&#8217;s population have English as a mother tongue; Cantonese is the mother tongue of 77,435 persons or 11.8% of the population, followed by Mandarin (41,695 or 6.4%), Tagalog (18,675 or 2.9%), Spanish (16,735 or 2.6%), Punjabi (13,305 or 2.0%), Vietnamese (11,870 or 1.8%), Persian languages (10,315 or 1.6%), Korean (8,605 or 1.3%), Japanese (7,150 or 1.1%), Portuguese (6,740 or 1.0%), Russian (5,155 or 0.8%), German (4,725 or 0.7%), Hindi (4,355 or 0.7%), and Italian (4,000 or 0.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2021 Canadian census, 612,215 persons, or 94.1% of Vancouver&#8217;s population, know the English language; 96,965 persons or 14.9% of the population, know the Cantonese language, followed by Mandarin (74,695 or 11.5%), French (60,990 or 9.4%), Tagalog (30,430 or 4.7%), Punjabi (19,130 or 2.9%), Hindi (15,025 or 2.3%), Vietnamese (14,905 or 2.3%), Persian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/92"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}