Asians speak up: Mother tongues in Toronto

PUNJABI TAGALOG TAR CANTON URDUESEPI GUJARATE TAMIL GUSAKHIE CHINESEMADA ANNG AGALOGRO PUNJAR TURK PGALOGH VIENAMESE | GUJÄRAT TAMIL VIE FNAME GUJARA CHINESE BENGALT CAN CANIONETEE CHIWESE TAG AMIL KAING JARA JAMIU BENG TAMTE KOREAN /AMIL Asian Languages In Toronto KOAGAL TAGALO CHINESE BENGALI MANDARIN GALOE EMNEPAREARD BMAGALOG A Look At CANTON Toronto's Mother Tongues Toronto has a very diverse palette of languages with 45% of allI Toronto residents speaking a mother tonque other than English or French. Statistics Canada identified about 160 different types of mother tongues in Toronto. O Percentage of speakers with English as mother tongue O Percentage of speakers with a mother tongue neither English or French I Percentage of speakers with multiple mother tongues O Percentage of speakers with French as mother tongue Pie chart representing 2011 Census results of Toronto's spoken languages In Toronto, many of the mother tongues are Asian languages, such as Cantonese, Urdu, Tamil, Vietnamese, and more. The following are geographic representations of these Asian languages, in which the language is one of the top 10 most spoken at home in that Toronto ward. Toronto Wards Map 24 39 V10( 23 41 33 42 40 25 12 15 16 34 37 38 43 44 4 11 17 21 13 22 26 27 29 31 35 36 18 14 19 20 30 32 28 Legend 1 & 2- Etobicoke North 3 & 4 - Etobicoke Centre 5 & 6 - Etobicoke Lakeshore 7 & 8- York West 9 & 10 - York Centre 11 & 12- York South-Weston 13 & 14 - Parkdale-High Park 17 & 18 - Davenport 19 & 20 - Trinity-Spadina 21 & 22 - St. Paul's 33 & 34 - Don Valley East 35 & 36 - Scarborough Southeast 37 & 38 - Scarborough Centre 39 & 40 - Agincourt 41 & 42 - Rouge River 43 & 44 - Scarborough East 23 & 24 - Willowdale 25 & 26 - Don Valley West 27 & 28 - Rosedale 15 & 16 - Eglinton-Lawrence 29 & 30 - Danforth 31 & 32 - Beaches-East York Punjabi Gujarati Tamil Filipino/Tagalog Persian Korean Urdu Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Vietnamese Turkish Tibetan Bengali Pashto Arabic Hindi *Tagalog is primarily spoken in the Philippine capital, Manila, and surrounding provinces. Filipino includes languages and dialects in the Philippines other than Tagalog. While the census lists both Filipino and Tagalog as separate responses, we have grouped them together in one representation. † The census responses of Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chinese (which is not otherwise specified) have been separately represented in this infographic, as under reporting and over reporting may be a factor in these results and also in order to not erase the presence of other Chinese dialects such as Hakka, Fukien, Taiwanese, Shanghainese and so on. Sources: http://app.toronto.ca/wards/ http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/pdf/language_2011_backgrounder.pdf The Origamio 2013 A Infographic by Tihenily Li JIETNAMGJE