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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 La Prairie, V
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 23,060 375 10,090 12,480 120
Single responses 22,650 360 10,030 12,145 120
English 925 145 15 765 0
French 19,785 5 9,535 10,235 5
Non-official languages 1,945 210 480 1,140 120
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 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 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 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 855 10 280 515 45
Italian 120 0 20 95 5
Portuguese 200 0 80 110 5
Romanian 175 0 45 115 15
Spanish 355 15 135 195 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 40 10 0 35 0
Dutch 10 0 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 30 10 0 25 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 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 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 115 10 35 70 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 0 0 15 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 0 10 15 0
Russian 50 5 15 25 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 0 5 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 80 20 5 55 5
Armenian 15 0 0 10 5
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 10 5 5 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 0 5 5 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 265 15 75 165 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 5 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 0 10 20 0
Oromo 25 0 10 15 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 235 20 60 145 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 230 15 60 145 5
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 85 15 15 45 5
Indo-Aryan languages 25 10 0 10 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 5 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 5 0 10 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 55 5 15 30 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 5 10 30 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 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 10 0 5 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 275 100 20 115 35
Chinese languages 275 105 25 115 40
Cantonese 40 15 0 15 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 25 15 20 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 65 5 75 30
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 0 10 10 0
Lao 15 0 5 10 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 10 15 55 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 0 5 15 0
Vietnamese 65 10 5 40 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 10 5 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 10 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 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 0 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 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 5 0 0 5 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 0 5 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 55 0 25 25 5
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. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 410 15 55 335 0
English and French 245 0 15 230 0
English and non-official language 30 15 0 20 0
French and non-official language 105 0 40 60 0
English, French and non-official language 30 0 0 30 0

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

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