Immigrant Language: Punjabi

Immigrant Languages Dept: Of the 712,000 people who reported speaking an immigrant language most often at home, nearly 18 per cent reported speaking Punjabi, according to CBC. The census figures show Punjabi and the Chinese groups accounted for more than half 57.7 per cent of the overall population speaking an immigrant language most often at home in the Metro Vancouver census area. Vancouver's immigrant languages Punjabi 126,000 17.7%. Cantonese 113,610 16.0%. Chinese unspecified 86,580 12.2%. Mandarin 83, 832 11.8%. Tagalog 47,640 6.7%. Korean 38,870 5.5%. Persian Farsi 28,970 4.1%. Spanish 22,505 3.2%. Hindi 18,325 2.6%. Vietnamese 18,225 2.6%. Russian 11,765 1.7%. Japanese 9,920 1.4%. Other 105,140 14.8%. Total 711,515 100% and the newest census figures show Chinese languages and Punjabi are the dominate immigrant languages spoken in Metro Vancouver homes. But the combined number of people who spoke either Cantonese, Mandarin or an unspecified Chinese language accounted for 40 per cent of the population who spoke an immigrant language as their main language at home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.