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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 M1J
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 35,945 32,390 120 1,990 1,450
Single responses 34,375 31,020 105 1,810 1,445
English 17,785 16,990 0 765 25
French 430 35 55 345 0
Non-official languages 16,160 13,995 55 695 1,415
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 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 1,145 940 5 75 135
Italian 345 290 0 15 40
Portuguese 160 125 0 10 20
Romanian 90 50 0 25 15
Spanish 555 470 0 20 60
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 255 240 0 15 5
Dutch 25 25 0 0 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 210 195 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 945 830 0 20 100
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 5 5
Czech 90 70 0 0 15
Macedonian 340 310 0 5 25
Polish 210 195 0 10 10
Russian 55 45 0 0 5
Serbian 70 65 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Slovak 75 40 0 0 35
Slovenian 10 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 395 355 0 15 20
Armenian 35 25 0 5 10
Albanian 195 170 0 10 20
Georgian 20 15 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 275 155 0 10 110
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 260 140 0 5 115
Turkic languages 30 25 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 575 475 5 45 50
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 110 90 0 10 10
Oromo 5 0 0 0 5
Somali 105 90 0 5 10
Semitic languages 460 385 0 30 40
Amharic 120 115 0 0 5
Arabic 235 185 0 25 30
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 40 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 55 40 0 5 10
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,490 3,960 0 140 390
Indo-Aryan languages 3,470 3,110 0 105 255
Bengali 815 735 0 30 45
Gujarati 550 470 0 20 65
Hindi 275 255 0 10 20
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 180 165 0 0 15
Sindhi 30 30 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 130 125 0 5 5
Urdu 1,430 1,285 0 35 110
Nepali 25 25 0 5 0
Iranian languages 980 810 0 35 135
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0
Pashto 190 150 0 10 25
Persian (Farsi) 770 645 0 25 105
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 3,955 3,470 0 110 375
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 220 205 0 5 10
Tamil 3,655 3,190 0 100 360
Telugu 75 70 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0 0
Korean 80 65 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 710 600 0 10 105
Chinese languages 700 585 0 10 100
Cantonese 285 240 0 5 45
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0 5
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 175 150 0 5 25
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 215 180 0 0 35
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 75 55 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 55 0 0 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,260 2,170 0 40 50
Bisayan languages 95 95 0 0 0
Ilocano 115 105 0 5 5
Malay 15 20 0 0 0
Pampango 25 25 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,980 1,905 0 35 40
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 265 210 10 40 5
Akan (Twi) 50 50 0 0 0
Bantu languages 140 95 5 35 0
Lingala 10 0 5 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 65 55 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Edo 20 20 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 0 0 5
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Creoles 360 145 35 165 10
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,570 1,370 10 180 5
English and French 55 5 0 45 0
English and non-official language 1,405 1,335 0 65 5
French and non-official language 75 20 10 45 0
English, French and non-official language 35 10 0 30 0

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


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