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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 Oshawa, CY
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 148,235 137,935 150 9,435 710
Single responses 146,585 136,765 145 8,975 700
English 128,555 123,150 0 5,375 25
French 3,205 280 125 2,805 0
Non-official languages 14,830 13,335 25 795 675
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 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 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 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 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 5 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 3,560 3,110 10 235 200
Italian 1,525 1,365 5 75 80
Portuguese 885 775 5 50 55
Romanian 170 115 0 40 10
Spanish 975 850 5 70 55
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Germanic languages 1,715 1,635 0 80 0
Dutch 600 570 0 25 0
Flemish 10 15 0 0 0
Frisian 15 20 0 0 0
German 975 925 0 50 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 85 85 0 5 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 5 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,910 3,560 0 195 150
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 205 195 0 5 10
Czech 55 55 0 0 0
Macedonian 175 155 0 5 10
Polish 1,940 1,775 5 90 75
Russian 300 245 0 35 20
Serbian 170 145 0 15 10
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 5 0
Slovak 95 85 0 5 0
Slovenian 95 85 0 5 0
Ukrainian 835 775 5 35 30
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Latvian 35 30 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0 0
Greek 370 350 0 15 10
Armenian 30 25 0 5 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 585 540 0 35 15
Estonian 35 40 0 0 0
Finnish 75 75 0 5 0
Hungarian 470 430 0 30 15
Turkic languages 45 35 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 45 35 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 585 505 5 60 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages 575 495 5 60 15
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 400 325 5 55 10
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 135 135 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,580 1,450 0 50 85
Indo-Aryan languages 1,140 1,055 0 30 55
Bengali 105 95 0 5 0
Gujarati 270 240 0 10 15
Hindi 110 105 0 5 0
Konkani 10 5 0 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 140 0 5 10
Sindhi 30 25 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 0
Urdu 410 390 0 10 15
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 430 385 0 15 30
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 405 355 0 15 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 245 215 0 15 15
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0 0
Tamil 195 165 0 15 10
Telugu 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 20 0 0 0
Korean 145 130 0 10 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 885 740 0 20 120
Chinese languages 880 740 0 25 120
Cantonese 230 190 0 5 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 185 165 0 5 20
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 455 370 0 15 70
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 45 45 0 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0 0
Thai 15 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 170 130 0 10 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 5 0
Vietnamese 150 115 0 5 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 620 600 0 15 5
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 555 540 0 10 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 120 95 0 20 5
Akan (Twi) 15 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 55 0 15 5
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 40 30 0 5 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 5
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 35 20 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 50 25 0 0 20
American Sign Language 25 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,645 1,165 10 465 5
English and French 425 80 5 345 0
English and non-official language 1,120 1,045 0 70 5
French and non-official language 75 40 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0

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

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