The latest census numbers in the census metropolitan area of Vancouver show the same trend as Canada.
The number of English speakers in the region has declined, from 57.6 per cent down to 57.2 per cent, or about 100,000 people.
About the same is reflected in the rise of people whose mother tongue is something other than the two official languages.
That’s 41.5 percent of people in the region.
The top languages spoken, after English, in order, are Cantonese or Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean and Farsi.
And those are all spoken by more people than those who speak French.
In total, about 179 languages were indentified in the greater Vancouver area.
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