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.
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 |
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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.