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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 Perth
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 74,220 70,935 20 2,820 450
Single responses 73,780 70,560 20 2,755 445
English 66,230 64,030 5 2,190 10
French 460 105 5 350 0
Non-official languages 7,090 6,425 10 215 435
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 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 5 0
Romance languages 600 525 0 45 25
Italian 210 185 0 20 5
Portuguese 135 115 0 5 10
Romanian 30 25 0 5 0
Spanish 220 195 0 10 10
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,135 4,675 5 110 340
Dutch 1,265 1,210 0 40 15
Flemish 65 50 0 15 5
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 3,720 3,335 5 60 325
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 55 0 5 0
Danish 45 40 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 330 310 0 10 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 130 125 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0 0
Serbian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 35 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 60 55 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 100 95 0 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 80 80 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 65 60 0 10 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 60 55 0 5 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 35 30 0 10 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 5 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 230 205 0 10 20
Indo-Aryan languages 205 185 0 5 15
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 5
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 90 0 5 10
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 5 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 40 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 30 0 0 10
Korean 65 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 165 135 0 10 15
Chinese languages 155 130 0 10 20
Cantonese 30 20 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 80 0 5 10
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 110 90 0 5 15
Lao 105 80 0 5 10
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 80 80 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 5 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 60 0 5 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 10 10 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 0 0
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 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
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 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 435 365 0 65 0
English and French 70 25 0 40 0
English and non-official language 315 310 0 10 5
French and non-official language 35 30 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 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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