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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations
Detailed Mother Tongue (192), Single and Multiple Language Responses (3), Age Groups (7) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census
About this variable: Detailed mother tongue (192)
Definition
Mother tongue
Part A - Short definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual on May 10, 2011.
Values
- Total - Detailed mother tongue Footnote 1
- English
- French
- Algonquin
- Atikamekw
- Blackfoot
- Cree, n.o.s.
- Swampy Cree
- Plains Cree
- Woods Cree
- Cree, n.i.e.
- Malecite
- Mi'kmaq
- Innu/Montagnais
- Naskapi
- Ojibway
- Oji-Cree
- Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
- Michif
- Carrier
- Wetsuweten
- Chilcotin
- Dene
- Tlicho (Dogrib)
- Gwich'in
- North Slavey (Hare)
- South Slavey
- Slavey, n.o.s.
- Sarcee
- Beaver
- Sekani
- Kaska (Nahani)
- Tahltan
- Northern Tutchone
- Southern Tutchone
- Tutchone, n.o.s.
- Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
- Haida
- Mohawk
- Cayuga
- Oneida
- Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
- Kutenai
- Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)
- Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
- Halkomelem
- Lillooet
- Okanagan
- Squamish
- Straits
- Salish languages, n.i.e.
- Dakota
- Stoney
- Siouan languages, n.i.e.
- Tlingit
- Gitksan
- Nisga'a
- Tsimshian
- Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)
- Haisla
- Heiltsuk
- Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)
- Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
- Inuktitut
- Inuinnaqtun
- Inuvialuktun
- Inuit languages, n.i.e.
- Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Catalan
- Romance languages, n.i.e.
- Dutch
- Flemish
- Frisian
- German
- Yiddish
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Afrikaans
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Gaelic languages
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Belarusian (Byelorussian)
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Greek
- Armenian
- Albanian
- Georgian
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Mongolian
- Berber languages (Kabyle)
- Oromo
- Somali
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Panjabi (Punjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Nepali
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Korean
- Cantonese
- Chaochow (Teochow)
- Fukien
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Shanghainese
- Taiwanese
- Chinese, n.o.s.
- Tibetan languages
- Burmese
- Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
- Lao
- Thai
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Bisayan languages
- Ilocano
- Malay
- Pampango
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Bikol
- Malagasy
- Fijian
- Pangasinan
- Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
- Akan (Twi)
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Ganda
- Bantu languages, n.i.e.
- Edo
- Igbo
- Wolof
- Bamanankan
- Ewe
- Ga
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- African languages, n.i.e.
- Creoles
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.
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