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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 Elgin
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 86,235 82,195 20 3,270 755
Single responses 85,505 81,560 20 3,170 750
English 73,435 71,170 0 2,255 15
French 875 155 10 710 5
Non-official languages 11,190 10,235 15 210 735
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 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 0 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 5 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 865 770 0 35 60
Italian 195 180 0 10 5
Portuguese 370 320 0 10 35
Romanian 55 50 0 5 0
Spanish 250 220 0 10 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 8,280 7,590 10 105 570
Dutch 1,185 1,160 0 30 5
Flemish 150 140 0 10 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 0
German 6,885 6,240 10 65 570
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 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 775 735 0 20 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 220 210 0 5 5
Czech 40 35 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 320 290 0 15 10
Russian 20 25 0 0 0
Serbian 15 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 0 0
Greek 50 45 0 0 0
Armenian 10 0 0 5 0
Albanian 80 70 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 250 230 5 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 225 220 0 5 0
Turkic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 150 130 0 10 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 145 130 0 10 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 75 0 5 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 55 55 0 5 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 145 130 0 0 15
Indo-Aryan languages 125 115 0 0 10
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 5
Hindi 15 15 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 15 0 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 5 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 10 0 0 5
Korean 55 50 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 90 70 0 5 15
Chinese languages 90 70 0 5 15
Cantonese 15 15 0 5 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 35 0 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 25 30 0 0 0
Lao 20 20 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 225 205 0 0 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 140 125 0 0 15
Vietnamese 90 80 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 65 65 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 50 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 15 10 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 5 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 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 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 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 25 20 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 735 630 0 95 5
English and French 120 50 0 75 0
English and non-official language 555 550 0 5 5
French and non-official language 45 40 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 15 0

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

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