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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 L6Y
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 73,490 65,300 45 3,655 4,480
Single responses 70,095 62,315 40 3,285 4,450
English 31,705 30,045 0 1,615 35
French 550 45 25 480 0
Non-official languages 37,840 32,220 15 1,190 4,415
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 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 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 5 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 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,310 2,810 0 145 355
Italian 640 570 0 35 30
Portuguese 1,760 1,455 0 55 255
Romanian 80 60 0 15 0
Spanish 835 725 0 40 70
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 985 955 0 30 5
Dutch 680 665 0 15 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 45 40 0 0 0
German 230 215 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 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 1,745 1,590 0 75 80
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0 5
Bulgarian 25 20 0 0 0
Croatian 290 270 0 10 10
Czech 25 25 0 0 5
Macedonian 40 35 0 0 5
Polish 1,040 950 0 45 45
Russian 60 50 0 10 5
Serbian 75 75 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 35 30 0 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 120 110 0 5 0
Armenian 25 20 0 5 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 75 0 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 55 0 0 5
Turkic languages 40 35 0 0 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 0 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 570 505 5 35 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 45 40 0 0 0
Semitic languages 510 450 0 30 25
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 360 310 0 35 25
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 40 40 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 85 85 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 25,680 21,395 10 720 3,550
Indo-Aryan languages 25,390 21,145 10 715 3,520
Bengali 280 250 0 10 15
Gujarati 1,615 1,430 5 40 140
Hindi 1,905 1,755 0 55 95
Konkani 25 25 0 5 0
Marathi 95 90 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 18,710 15,050 5 525 3,120
Sindhi 45 40 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 195 180 0 5 0
Urdu 2,280 2,105 0 50 120
Nepali 235 210 0 10 10
Iranian languages 240 205 0 5 25
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 20 15 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 185 0 5 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 1,510 1,345 0 50 115
Kannada 25 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 250 230 0 5 10
Tamil 1,100 960 0 40 100
Telugu 135 125 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Korean 55 55 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 910 750 0 25 135
Chinese languages 900 740 0 25 135
Cantonese 335 280 0 5 50
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 15 10 0 0 5
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 180 140 0 5 35
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 360 295 0 5 55
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 35 0 0 5
Lao 30 25 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 685 565 0 20 100
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0 5
Vietnamese 665 550 0 20 100
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,440 1,420 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 55 55 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 50 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 40 40 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,265 1,245 0 10 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 420 395 5 20 0
Akan (Twi) 185 175 0 5 0
Bantu languages 55 45 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 35 25 0 10 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Edo 20 25 0 0 0
Igbo 35 25 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 110 110 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Creoles 90 40 0 40 5
Non-verbal languages 15 5 5 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,395 2,990 5 365 35
English and French 120 35 0 90 0
English and non-official language 3,140 2,935 0 175 30
French and non-official language 70 10 5 55 0
English, French and non-official language 60 10 0 45 5

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


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