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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Bruce
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 65,240 61,885 10 3,060 285
Single responses 64,905 61,615 5 2,995 285
English 60,015 57,730 0 2,270 10
French 635 75 0 550 0
Non-official languages 4,260 3,810 5 175 275
Aboriginal languages 155 155 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 150 145 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 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 145 145 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 305 245 0 40 15
Italian 105 90 0 10 5
Portuguese 60 55 0 5 0
Romanian 45 45 0 5 0
Spanish 90 60 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,605 2,305 0 75 215
Dutch 580 550 0 20 10
Flemish 10 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 1,955 1,705 0 50 205
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 35 0 5 0
Danish 25 20 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 335 310 0 20 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 5 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0 0
Czech 40 35 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 5 0
Polish 110 110 0 5 0
Russian 45 45 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 5 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 45 40 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 105 100 0 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 65 60 0 5 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 20 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 320 295 0 15 15
Indo-Aryan languages 290 260 0 15 15
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 70 65 0 0 5
Hindi 40 40 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 110 95 0 5 10
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 125 110 0 5 10
Chinese languages 120 115 0 5 5
Cantonese 30 25 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 30 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 0 5 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 15 0 0 0 10
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 85 80 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 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 5 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 0 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 0 0
Swahili 5 0 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 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 335 265 0 65 5
English and French 85 35 0 50 0
English and non-official language 220 210 0 10 0
French and non-official language 20 20 0 0 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-XCB2011035.

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