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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 Portage - Lisgar
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 91,545 83,345 105 6,280 1,815
Single responses 90,200 82,205 100 6,100 1,800
English 61,245 58,485 5 2,730 20
French 3,580 325 80 3,175 0
Non-official languages 25,375 23,390 15 195 1,780
Aboriginal languages 540 540 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 500 500 0 0 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 35 30 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 30 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 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 460 465 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 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. 5 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 35 30 0 0 0
Dakota 35 35 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 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 300 255 0 20 25
Italian 30 30 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 30 0 5 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0 5
Spanish 215 180 0 15 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 22,265 20,655 15 140 1,465
Dutch 430 410 0 15 5
Flemish 135 120 0 20 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 21,605 20,020 15 105 1,465
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Icelandic 20 25 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 50 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,455 1,205 0 10 235
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 65 60 0 0 0
Russian 1,010 770 0 5 225
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 315 305 0 5 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 30 30 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 25 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 100 90 5 5 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 95 90 0 0 5
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 80 70 5 5 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 155 140 0 5 15
Indo-Aryan languages 135 115 0 5 15
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 0 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 0
Korean 45 45 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 95 80 0 0 15
Chinese languages 95 75 0 0 20
Cantonese 30 25 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 0 5
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 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 30 25 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 235 230 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 5
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 35 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,345 1,145 10 180 10
English and French 195 55 0 140 0
English and non-official language 1,000 970 5 15 10
French and non-official language 130 110 5 10 5
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0

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

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