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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 Sherbrooke
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 152,450 2,020 85,820 63,815 795
Single responses 150,600 1,975 85,360 62,485 785
English 6,240 1,530 85 4,615 5
French 135,785 15 81,185 54,575 10
Non-official languages 8,580 430 4,085 3,300 770
Aboriginal languages 10 0 5 5 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 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 5 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,165 55 1,795 1,100 215
Italian 140 0 50 90 0
Portuguese 165 5 60 95 0
Romanian 135 5 50 80 0
Spanish 2,715 45 1,630 825 205
Catalan 10 0 5 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 175 35 20 125 0
Dutch 40 5 0 30 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 115 25 15 80 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 0 5 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,355 25 680 580 75
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 140 0 100 35 5
Bulgarian 25 0 10 15 0
Croatian 60 0 25 35 5
Czech 35 0 5 25 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 110 5 35 70 0
Russian 115 5 55 45 10
Serbian 430 5 225 170 35
Serbo-Croatian 385 5 210 155 20
Slovak 20 0 10 15 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 15 0 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 5 0
Baltic languages 5 0 5 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 5 5 55 5
Armenian 10 0 0 5 0
Albanian 10 0 5 5 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 5 10 20 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 30 0 10 15 0
Turkic languages 40 5 25 15 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 0 15 15 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,330 35 605 560 130
Berber languages (Kabyle) 55 5 35 15 0
Cushitic languages 75 5 40 30 0
Oromo 60 0 35 25 0
Somali 10 0 5 5 0
Semitic languages 1,170 30 515 500 120
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,160 25 510 500 125
Hebrew 5 0 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 35 0 15 15 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,020 135 305 310 265
Indo-Aryan languages 265 55 30 80 100
Bengali 5 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 5 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 5 0
Nepali 220 35 25 60 100
Iranian languages 750 75 280 230 165
Kurdish 20 0 15 5 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 725 75 265 225 160
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 10 0 10 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 10 5 10 0
Korean 35 15 5 10 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 245 90 35 85 30
Chinese languages 245 90 35 90 30
Cantonese 20 5 0 10 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 20 15 20 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 170 65 20 60 25
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 20 5 5 15 0
Lao 15 0 5 10 0
Thai 10 5 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 210 5 95 90 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 0 30 25 5
Vietnamese 155 10 70 70 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 60 10 25 25 0
Bisayan languages 10 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 5 5 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 5 0
Malagasy 25 0 15 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 620 10 385 215 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 485 10 310 155 10
Lingala 45 0 35 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 160 0 95 60 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 65 5 35 30 5
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 135 5 105 25 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 5 45 25 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 40 0 15 25 5
Bamanankan 20 0 15 5 0
Ewe 20 0 20 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 0 30 25 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 10 0
Creoles 105 0 60 45 5
Non-verbal languages 15 0 15 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,845 50 460 1,330 10
English and French 1,125 15 85 1,025 0
English and non-official language 95 30 5 60 0
French and non-official language 555 5 355 185 10
English, French and non-official language 70 0 10 60 0

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

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