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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), 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 first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Oakville
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 119,240 115,030 2,055 805 1,355 2,455 2.1
Single responses 115,010 111,040 1,920 695 1,350 2,270 2.0
English 101,940 100,690 1,245 0 0 1,245 1.2
French 690 35 655 0 0 655 94.9
Non-official languages 12,380 10,310 20 695 1,350 370 3.0
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 2,800 2,160 10 210 420 110 3.9
Italian 555 450 5 25 75 15 2.7
Portuguese 995 710 0 25 255 15 1.5
Romanian 280 175 0 80 30 40 14.3
Spanish 970 825 0 80 65 45 4.6
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 375 295 0 65 10 30 8.0
Dutch 75 45 0 25 0 10 13.3
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 220 175 0 35 10 20 9.1
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 25 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afrikaans 55 50 0 5 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 2,825 2,410 5 185 230 95 3.4
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 40 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Bulgarian 55 40 0 10 5 5 9.1
Croatian 400 350 0 20 35 10 2.5
Czech 50 45 0 5 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 100 90 0 5 5 5 5.0
Polish 945 830 0 40 75 25 2.6
Russian 505 425 0 35 50 15 3.0
Serbian 460 375 0 40 40 20 4.3
Serbo-Croatian 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slovak 115 105 0 5 10 5 4.3
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 115 80 0 15 15 10 8.7
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Baltic languages 55 55 0 10 0 5 9.1
Latvian 20 20 0 5 0 5 25.0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 5 0 0 0.0
Greek 115 100 0 10 10 5 4.3
Armenian 50 40 0 5 0 0 0.0
Albanian 25 15 5 5 0 5 20.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 140 120 0 10 15 5 3.6
Estonian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Finnish 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 115 95 0 5 15 5 4.3
Turkic languages 80 70 0 5 0 5 6.3
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 80 65 0 5 5 5 6.3
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 645 530 10 60 50 40 6.2
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Somali 10 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 630 520 0 60 45 35 5.6
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 560 460 0 60 40 30 5.4
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 2,000 1,745 0 50 200 25 1.3
Indo-Aryan languages 1,440 1,270 5 25 140 15 1.0
Bengali 55 50 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 155 130 0 0 20 0 0.0
Hindi 140 135 0 0 10 0 0.0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 545 455 0 15 80 5 0.9
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 455 420 0 10 30 10 2.2
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 550 470 0 25 60 10 1.8
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 130 125 0 0 5 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 405 335 0 20 50 10 2.5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 130 125 0 5 0 5 3.8
Kannada 0 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Malayalam 25 20 0 5 0 5 20.0
Tamil 95 90 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 50 45 0 0 10 0 0.0
Korean 915 785 0 25 105 15 1.6
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,565 1,280 0 35 250 15 1.0
Chinese languages 1,555 1,280 0 30 245 20 1.3
Cantonese 310 250 0 5 55 5 1.6
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 505 405 0 10 85 5 1.0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 710 595 0 15 105 10 1.4
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 20 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 110 0 15 10 5 3.8
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vietnamese 130 105 5 10 10 5 3.8
Malayo-Polynesian languages 370 360 0 5 5 5 1.4
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pampango 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 325 315 0 5 5 5 1.5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 30 30 5 0 0 0 0.0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 0 0 5 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 10 0 5 10 0 10 100.0
Non-verbal languages 30 20 0 0 10 0 0.0
American Sign Language 20 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 4,235 3,990 135 110 0 185 4.4
English and French 225 60 100 65 0 135 60.0
English and non-official language 3,895 3,890 10 0 0 10 0.3
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0 0 5 50.0
English, French and non-official language 105 40 15 40 0 40 38.1

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011040.

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