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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 St. Catharines, 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 129,110 119,230 115 8,820 945
Single responses 127,290 117,885 110 8,360 935
English 103,645 98,820 5 4,790 30
French 2,890 265 95 2,535 0
Non-official languages 20,760 18,795 15 1,035 910
Aboriginal languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 5 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 4,935 4,315 5 305 315
Italian 2,555 2,250 0 145 160
Portuguese 220 190 5 20 10
Romanian 130 105 0 20 10
Spanish 2,030 1,770 0 120 140
Catalan 0 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,145 3,980 5 145 25
Dutch 1,270 1,215 0 50 0
Flemish 20 15 0 0 0
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 2,670 2,575 0 80 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 120 115 0 5 0
Danish 75 70 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 5 0
Swedish 30 25 0 5 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 5
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 4,420 4,020 0 235 165
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 5
Bosnian 110 100 0 5 5
Bulgarian 60 50 0 5 0
Croatian 235 225 0 0 5
Czech 155 145 0 5 5
Macedonian 30 25 0 5 5
Polish 1,930 1,760 0 95 75
Russian 455 385 0 30 40
Serbian 130 110 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 5 0
Slovak 165 160 0 5 0
Slovenian 180 180 0 5 0
Ukrainian 915 840 0 60 20
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 120 115 0 10 0
Latvian 55 50 0 0 0
Lithuanian 65 60 0 5 0
Greek 250 235 0 10 10
Armenian 190 160 0 15 10
Albanian 95 85 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 530 490 0 25 10
Estonian 50 50 0 0 0
Finnish 75 75 0 0 0
Hungarian 400 370 0 20 10
Turkic languages 100 90 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 80 75 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,490 1,255 0 140 90
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 60 55 0 5 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 55 50 0 5 5
Semitic languages 1,420 1,195 5 135 90
Amharic 25 20 0 0 0
Arabic 1,325 1,115 0 130 85
Hebrew 30 30 0 10 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,090 1,010 0 30 50
Indo-Aryan languages 750 685 0 25 35
Bengali 85 80 0 5 5
Gujarati 110 100 0 5 10
Hindi 100 95 0 5 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 90 0 0 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0
Urdu 270 255 0 5 10
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 335 320 0 10 15
Kurdish 135 125 0 0 5
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 175 165 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 115 110 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 30 0 5 0
Tamil 55 45 0 0 5
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 80 75 0 5 5
Korean 325 285 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,340 1,205 0 25 105
Chinese languages 1,335 1,200 0 30 105
Cantonese 180 155 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 355 325 0 5 20
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 785 705 0 15 65
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 260 220 0 10 25
Lao 220 185 0 10 25
Thai 35 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 305 245 0 20 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 110 0 5 20
Vietnamese 170 140 0 10 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 640 635 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 555 550 0 5 0
Bikol 10 5 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 205 170 5 30 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 140 115 5 20 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 5 0
Shona 55 50 0 0 0
Swahili 50 50 0 5 5
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 40 40 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Creoles 30 25 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,820 1,350 5 455 10
English and French 400 85 0 315 0
English and non-official language 1,310 1,230 0 70 10
French and non-official language 70 30 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 30 0

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

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