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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 L9A
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 24,175 22,440 20 1,225 485
Single responses 23,705 22,045 15 1,165 480
English 17,395 16,715 0 670 10
French 335 45 10 275 0
Non-official languages 5,975 5,275 10 220 475
Aboriginal languages 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,845 1,615 5 80 145
Italian 870 785 0 25 60
Portuguese 355 305 0 10 40
Romanian 75 55 0 10 10
Spanish 535 465 0 30 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 370 360 0 10 0
Dutch 135 135 0 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 215 205 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Danish 10 10 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 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 675 620 0 20 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 15 0 5 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5 0
Croatian 80 65 0 10 5
Czech 60 55 0 0 10
Macedonian 30 30 0 0 0
Polish 255 240 0 5 10
Russian 45 40 0 5 5
Serbian 75 70 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 5
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 0 5
Ukrainian 75 70 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Baltic languages 50 45 0 0 5
Latvian 30 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Greek 80 65 0 10 5
Armenian 25 25 0 0 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 205 195 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 185 175 0 10 5
Turkic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 910 770 0 30 105
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 5 0
Semitic languages 875 735 0 35 105
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 525 440 0 25 50
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 330 270 0 5 55
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 590 515 0 25 50
Indo-Aryan languages 290 255 0 10 25
Bengali 60 55 0 0 0
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 5
Hindi 35 30 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 5 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0 0
Urdu 100 90 0 5 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 295 255 0 10 30
Kurdish 160 130 0 5 20
Pashto 10 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 125 115 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 385 300 0 15 70
Chinese languages 385 300 0 10 70
Cantonese 160 115 0 5 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 35 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 180 150 0 5 25
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 10 15 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 195 170 5 0 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 185 160 0 0 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 400 385 0 0 10
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 360 350 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 45 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 50 35 5 10 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 5 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 10 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 470 400 5 60 10
English and French 45 5 0 40 0
English and non-official language 400 380 0 10 10
French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0

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


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