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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 Les Maskoutains
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 82,810 125 61,525 20,995 175
Single responses 82,320 115 61,365 20,665 170
English 650 45 55 545 5
French 79,610 5 60,090 19,505 10
Non-official languages 2,065 65 1,220 615 165
Aboriginal languages 5 0 5 5 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 5 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 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 5 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 5 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 1,150 10 750 275 110
Italian 50 0 20 30 0
Portuguese 80 0 40 35 5
Romanian 20 0 10 15 0
Spanish 995 15 680 195 100
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Germanic languages 80 5 20 50 0
Dutch 15 0 5 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 50 5 15 30 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 5 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages 65 0 30 30 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 5 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 0 5 5 0
Russian 10 0 0 10 0
Serbian 15 0 10 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 5 5 5
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 0 5 15 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 20 5 10 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 5 5 10 0
Turkic languages 55 0 35 10 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 50 0 40 10 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 270 5 145 90 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 20 0 10 10 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Oromo 0 0 0 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 240 5 135 75 25
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 235 5 130 75 25
Hebrew 0 0 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 80 15 20 40 0
Indo-Aryan languages 30 15 5 10 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 15 5 5 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 50 5 20 30 5
Kurdish 10 0 10 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 5 10 25 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 5 0
Korean 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 55 10 25 20 5
Chinese languages 50 5 20 15 5
Cantonese 5 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 5 5 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 5 10 5 5
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 0 5 5 0
Lao 10 0 5 5 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 35 0 15 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 5 0 5
Vietnamese 20 0 10 10 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 10 5 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 5 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 5 0 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 160 0 115 40 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 140 0 100 30 5
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 60 5 55 5 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 65 0 40 20 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0 0
Creoles 35 0 30 10 0
Non-verbal languages 10 0 5 5 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 495 10 155 325 0
English and French 310 0 60 245 0
English and non-official language 20 10 5 10 0
French and non-official language 145 0 95 50 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 20 0

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

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