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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Halifax West / Halifax-Ouest
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 97,045 83,980 75 12,385 600
Single responses 95,805 83,205 65 11,935 595
English 83,840 75,005 0 8,815 20
French 2,435 180 50 2,205 0
Non-official languages 9,530 8,025 15 910 575
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 720 545 5 130 40
Italian 240 190 0 45 5
Portuguese 60 45 0 10 5
Romanian 60 35 0 15 10
Spanish 360 275 0 65 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 535 430 0 105 0
Dutch 140 110 0 25 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 300 240 0 60 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 50 0 10 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 860 745 0 85 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 35 0 0 5
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 65 55 0 5 5
Czech 30 25 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 225 195 0 30 5
Russian 290 260 0 20 10
Serbian 35 35 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 50 35 0 0 5
Slovak 35 25 0 5 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 50 35 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 15 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 285 245 0 30 15
Armenian 15 5 0 10 0
Albanian 180 155 0 15 10
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 60 0 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 10 0
Turkic languages 115 100 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 85 75 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,750 2,210 10 385 155
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 20 0 0 5
Oromo 15 10 0 0 5
Somali 15 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages 2,720 2,185 10 380 150
Amharic 40 40 0 0 0
Arabic 2,630 2,100 5 375 145
Hebrew 25 25 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,445 1,250 0 50 145
Indo-Aryan languages 860 725 5 20 115
Bengali 105 100 0 5 5
Gujarati 30 30 0 0 5
Hindi 165 155 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 120 110 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 5 0
Urdu 180 175 0 0 0
Nepali 195 105 0 0 95
Iranian languages 570 515 0 25 25
Kurdish 55 50 0 5 0
Pashto 40 40 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 465 430 0 25 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 160 160 0 0 0
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 0
Tamil 65 60 0 0 0
Telugu 50 50 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 5 0
Korean 395 335 0 15 45
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,130 985 0 30 115
Chinese languages 1,125 985 0 30 115
Cantonese 135 110 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 300 270 0 5 25
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 670 585 0 15 65
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 165 150 0 10 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 165 145 0 10 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 405 395 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 5
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 355 345 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 145 115 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 5 0
Bantu languages 65 50 0 15 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 5 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 15 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Creoles 15 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,240 775 5 455 0
English and French 390 70 5 315 0
English and non-official language 760 690 0 75 0
French and non-official language 55 10 0 40 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 25 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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