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In addition to a core population of English speakers, the City of Brandon has significant numbers of residents whose mother tongue is Spanish, Chinese, Gujarati, Mandarin, German and Ukrainian as well as a wide variety of other non-official languages. In addition to those languages specified in the following chart, a wide variety of other non-official languages were reported by smaller numbers of people in Brandon.


The largest mother tongue language growth since 2016 has been Punjabi, Gujarati and Cree.

 

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Knowledge of Official Languages and Mother Tongue Languages in Brandon (CY)
Official Language Brandon CY 2021  Brandon CY 2016  Brandon CY 2011 
English only 46,705 44,235 41,755
English and French 1,440 2,525 2,345
French only 15 15 30
Neither English nor French  1,095 1,165 1,205

Mother Tongue Languages  

English 39,020 38,480 37,675
Spanish 1,970 2,175 1915
Chinese; n.o.s. 1,385 1,545 965
German 580 565 685
Ukrainian 505 620 685
French 485 620 600
Mandarin 990 1,130 200
Tagalog (Filipinio,Pilipino) 470 310 180
Amharic 305 225 150
Korean 140 155 135
Creoles 80 95 130
Russian 165 175 130
Ojibway 60 75 105
Polish 55 85 100
Gujarati 1240 585 95
Dutch 55 80 80
Punjabi 455 200 65
Cree; n.o.s. 100 55 80
Arabic 150 85 80
Afrikanns 85 95 75
Cantonese 355 345 65
Urdu 110 105 45

Source: Statistics Canada 2021 Census - May not total due to rounding

“Knowledge of Official languages” refers to the ability to conduct a conversation in one or both of the two official languages. "Mother Tongue" refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.

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