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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 Le Haut-Saint-Laurent^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	21,030	2,575	7,640	10,795	20
Single responses	20,645	2,560	7,605	10,460	20
English	6,150	2,370	25	3,755	0
French	13,985	20	7,540	6,420	0
Non-official languages	510	165	40	285	20
Aboriginal languages	0	5	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	5	0	0	0
Inuktitut	5	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	140	15	35	90	10
Italian	55	0	10	45	5
Portuguese	10	0	5	5	0
Romanian	10	0	0	10	0
Spanish	70	10	20	35	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	210	90	0	110	5
Dutch	50	20	0	25	0
Flemish	5	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	145	70	0	75	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	5
Scandinavian languages	0	0	0	5	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	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	55	15	5	35	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	5	5	0	0	0
Czech	5	5	0	5	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	15	5	0	5	0
Russian	15	0	5	15	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	10	5	0	5	0
Ukrainian	10	0	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	0	0	5	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	0	0	5	0
Greek	35	10	0	25	0
Armenian	0	0	0	5	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	25	15	0	10	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	5	0	0	5	0
Hungarian	20	5	0	10	0
Turkic languages	0	5	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	5	0	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	0	0	0	0	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)	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	5	0	0	5	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	5	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	0	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	25	10	0	5	5
Chinese languages	20	10	0	5	5
Cantonese	0	0	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	15	5	0	5	5
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	5	5	0	0	0
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	5	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	5	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)	5	5	0	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	5	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	0	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	0	0	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	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.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	385	15	30	335	0
English and French	340	5	20	315	0
English and non-official language	25	5	0	15	0
French and non-official language	15	0	10	5	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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