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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, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
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 138,435 120,590 130 17,005 715
Single responses 137,690 120,225 120 16,630 710
English 127,635 115,815 5 11,780 35
French 5,195 550 105 4,530 0
Non-official languages 4,865 3,855 10 320 675
Aboriginal languages 110 105 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 100 100 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 105 95 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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 350 250 5 80 20
Italian 60 30 0 25 0
Portuguese 45 40 0 10 0
Romanian 15 15 0 5 0
Spanish 225 170 5 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 885 800 0 75 5
Dutch 470 440 0 25 0
Flemish 25 25 0 5 0
Frisian 25 25 0 5 0
German 295 250 0 45 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 40 0 5 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 5 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 330 280 0 40 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 35 30 0 5 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 45 5 15 0
Russian 105 95 0 5 5
Serbian 20 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 95 85 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 60 0 15 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 10 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 315 255 0 45 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 20 0 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0 10
Semitic languages 285 235 0 45 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 270 220 5 40 5
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 495 425 0 15 55
Indo-Aryan languages 290 240 0 10 35
Bengali 30 30 0 5 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 35 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 30 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 5 0
Urdu 35 35 0 5 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0 25
Iranian languages 210 185 0 0 20
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 185 0 0 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 60 0 5 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 5
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 75 70 0 0 0
Korean 135 120 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,645 1,085 0 15 540
Chinese languages 1,595 1,050 0 15 530
Cantonese 100 70 0 0 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 290 215 0 5 70
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 745 0 10 425
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 20 0 0 10
Tai languages 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 40 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 130 120 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 5 5
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 105 0 0 0
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 30 20 0 10 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 15 0 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 5
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 750 360 10 375 5
English and French 440 110 0 335 0
English and non-official language 255 235 0 20 0
French and non-official language 35 15 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011033.

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