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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada and Forward Sortation Areas, 2011 Census ©

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in L6T
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 37,370 34,565 30 1,655 1,110
Single responses 35,675 33,025 30 1,520 1,100
English 21,570 20,755 5 790 30
French 380 45 20 315 5
Non-official languages 13,720 12,230 10 415 1,070
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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 5 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 1,885 1,675 0 75 140
Italian 360 335 0 10 15
Portuguese 300 255 0 20 25
Romanian 80 70 0 10 5
Spanish 1,150 1,015 0 30 100
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 390 365 0 20 0
Dutch 85 80 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 270 255 0 15 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 735 665 0 35 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 10 0 5 0
Croatian 50 45 0 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 25 20 0 0 0
Polish 315 280 0 20 15
Russian 60 50 0 5 0
Serbian 110 100 0 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 65 65 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 40 35 0 0 0
Armenian 15 10 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 105 100 0 0 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 90 85 0 5 0
Turkic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 530 435 0 45 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages 510 425 0 45 40
Amharic 35 40 0 0 0
Arabic 355 270 5 45 35
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 40 40 0 0 5
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 80 75 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 6,820 5,995 0 165 655
Indo-Aryan languages 6,445 5,680 0 155 610
Bengali 220 195 0 10 15
Gujarati 1,085 930 0 30 120
Hindi 750 690 0 25 35
Konkani 20 25 0 0 0
Marathi 40 40 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,410 2,035 0 50 325
Sindhi 55 50 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 95 0 0 0
Urdu 1,720 1,570 0 40 110
Nepali 45 45 0 0 5
Iranian languages 350 295 0 10 45
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 80 65 0 0 15
Persian (Farsi) 265 220 0 10 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 845 780 0 5 50
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 90 85 0 0 5
Tamil 615 560 0 5 45
Telugu 120 120 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 20 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 430 365 0 0 60
Chinese languages 390 330 0 0 50
Cantonese 110 95 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 90 0 0 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 140 0 0 25
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 25 25 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 30 0 5 5
Lao 25 25 0 0 5
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 370 320 0 15 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 360 310 0 10 40
Malayo-Polynesian languages 930 910 0 0 15
Bisayan languages 35 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 10 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 840 820 0 0 10
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. 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 430 400 5 20 10
Akan (Twi) 280 275 0 5 5
Bantu languages 40 25 5 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 15 15 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 5 0
Creoles 40 25 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,695 1,540 5 140 10
English and French 70 20 0 50 0
English and non-official language 1,295 1,225 0 55 10
French and non-official language 315 290 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011032.


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