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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 Nanaimo, 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 82,710 76,990 40 5,315 365
Single responses 81,905 76,425 35 5,090 365
English 72,615 68,895 0 3,705 15
French 1,175 160 20 990 0
Non-official languages 8,115 7,370 10 390 350
Aboriginal languages 65 65 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 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 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 5 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. 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 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. 10 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 740 645 0 80 10
Italian 245 225 0 15 0
Portuguese 75 70 0 5 0
Romanian 40 30 0 10 5
Spanish 380 325 5 50 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,095 1,935 0 155 10
Dutch 515 465 0 45 5
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 1,095 1,010 0 80 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 380 370 0 10 0
Danish 210 200 0 5 0
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 70 70 0 0 0
Swedish 85 80 0 5 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 940 880 0 40 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 140 135 0 0 5
Czech 110 105 0 0 5
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 220 200 0 15 5
Russian 160 145 0 5 5
Serbian 40 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 5
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 165 160 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 65 65 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 290 280 0 15 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 105 95 0 5 0
Hungarian 180 175 0 5 0
Turkic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 140 125 0 15 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 130 115 0 15 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 105 90 0 10 5
Hebrew 10 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,175 1,040 5 30 105
Indo-Aryan languages 1,085 960 0 25 100
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0 5
Hindi 85 75 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 900 785 5 20 95
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 5
Iranian languages 85 80 0 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 80 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 195 190 5 5 5
Korean 270 235 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,085 970 5 10 100
Chinese languages 1,075 970 0 10 95
Cantonese 190 170 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 310 260 0 10 40
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 540 500 0 0 35
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 55 55 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 50 55 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 415 350 0 15 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 5 15
Vietnamese 325 280 0 10 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 395 385 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 325 320 0 0 5
Bikol 5 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. 25 20 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 55 50 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 800 570 0 230 5
English and French 205 55 0 155 0
English and non-official language 530 480 0 40 5
French and non-official language 35 20 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 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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