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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Queens
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 76,705 66,550 60 9,495 600
Single responses 76,305 66,335 60 9,310 600
English 70,630 62,985 5 7,615 30
French 1,645 160 50 1,435 0
Non-official languages 4,030 3,185 10 260 570
Aboriginal languages 45 50 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 45 50 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. 0 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 50 50 0 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 5 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 265 180 5 70 10
Italian 45 20 0 20 0
Portuguese 30 20 0 5 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5 0
Spanish 175 130 0 35 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 665 600 5 60 0
Dutch 360 340 5 20 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0 0
Frisian 25 20 0 5 0
German 220 185 0 30 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 265 220 5 35 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 45 35 0 10 0
Russian 100 85 0 10 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 40 0 5 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 45 0 10 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 45 30 0 10 5
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 295 235 5 40 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 25 0 0 10
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0 10
Semitic languages 260 215 5 35 5
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 250 200 0 35 10
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 5 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 470 400 0 10 50
Indo-Aryan languages 265 220 0 10 35
Bengali 30 25 0 5 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0 30
Iranian languages 205 185 0 5 15
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 5 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 45 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 5
Telugu 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 70 65 0 0 5
Korean 115 100 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,485 1,020 0 15 450
Chinese languages 1,440 990 0 15 440
Cantonese 80 55 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 280 210 0 0 70
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,055 710 0 10 340
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 5 10
Tai languages 10 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 35 35 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 65 60 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 5
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 50 0 0 0
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 25 15 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 5 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 5 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. 5 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 400 210 0 185 5
English and French 195 40 0 155 0
English and non-official language 170 155 0 15 5
French and non-official language 20 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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