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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 M4H
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 18,400 16,210 20 785 1,385
Single responses 17,370 15,260 15 710 1,375
English 4,600 4,330 0 245 25
French 120 15 10 105 0
Non-official languages 12,650 10,920 15 365 1,350
Aboriginal languages 0 0 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 5 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 5 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. 5 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 505 405 0 40 65
Italian 25 25 0 0 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0 0
Romanian 90 65 0 15 5
Spanish 350 275 0 15 60
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 75 70 0 5 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 65 60 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 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 370 320 0 30 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 60 50 0 5 5
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 40 35 0 0 5
Polish 50 45 0 5 5
Russian 90 70 0 10 10
Serbian 55 50 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 280 230 0 10 40
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0
Albanian 130 110 0 5 15
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 170 110 0 5 55
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 160 100 0 5 55
Turkic languages 240 190 0 15 35
Azerbaijani 15 15 0 0 0
Turkish 190 150 0 10 30
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 395 305 5 50 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 25 0 10 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 30 15 0 15 0
Semitic languages 355 280 5 40 30
Amharic 50 45 0 0 5
Arabic 255 190 0 40 25
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 45 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 8,860 7,700 5 150 1,005
Indo-Aryan languages 7,185 6,345 5 115 725
Bengali 390 365 0 10 15
Gujarati 960 755 5 15 190
Hindi 190 180 0 5 5
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 515 435 0 10 60
Sindhi 245 205 5 5 30
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 5
Urdu 4,855 4,375 0 70 410
Nepali 10 5 0 0 5
Iranian languages 1,605 1,285 0 40 275
Kurdish 60 45 0 0 15
Pashto 590 460 0 10 115
Persian (Farsi) 955 775 0 30 145
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 70 65 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 295 260 5 10 20
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 5
Tamil 240 220 0 5 10
Telugu 20 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 25 0 0 0
Korean 70 55 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 200 160 0 5 35
Chinese languages 195 160 0 5 30
Cantonese 55 45 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 75 0 5 20
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 890 870 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 50 45 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 20 20 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 770 750 0 5 10
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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 90 65 0 20 5
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 50 0 15 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 10 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 40 35 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 10 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 5
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,035 950 0 70 10
English and French 25 5 0 15 0
English and non-official language 960 920 0 30 10
French and non-official language 35 15 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 0

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


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