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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 North Cowichan, DM
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 28,500 26,760 5 1,630 105
Single responses 28,270 26,565 5 1,590 105
English 25,695 24,490 5 1,200 0
French 360 60 0 300 0
Non-official languages 2,220 2,015 0 95 100
Aboriginal languages 40 40 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 5 5 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 0 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 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 30 25 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 15 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. 10 15 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 5 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 150 125 0 20 5
Italian 55 45 0 5 0
Portuguese 35 25 0 5 5
Romanian 5 10 0 0 0
Spanish 55 45 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 775 725 0 45 0
Dutch 275 265 0 15 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 390 370 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 85 80 0 5 0
Danish 55 50 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 195 185 0 10 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0 5
Czech 20 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 45 40 0 0 0
Russian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 65 65 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 75 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 40 35 0 0 5
Hungarian 40 40 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 585 505 0 10 65
Indo-Aryan languages 560 490 0 10 65
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 545 470 0 5 60
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0 5
Korean 60 45 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 130 120 0 5 10
Chinese languages 130 110 0 0 15
Cantonese 50 40 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 50 0 5 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 35 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 90 95 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 75 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 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 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 230 195 0 35 0
English and French 45 20 0 25 0
English and non-official language 165 165 0 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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

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