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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 Division No. 1
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 260,010 243,870 45 15,760 335
Single responses 259,330 243,465 40 15,490 330
English 253,590 239,190 5 14,370 25
French 995 185 30 775 0
Non-official languages 4,750 4,090 10 340 305
Aboriginal languages 60 55 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 20 25 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 25 30 0 0 0
Inuktitut 25 20 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 520 420 0 80 20
Italian 55 45 0 15 0
Portuguese 65 50 0 10 0
Romanian 35 15 0 10 5
Spanish 365 305 0 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 430 360 0 70 0
Dutch 60 45 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 215 175 0 45 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 115 105 0 10 0
Danish 30 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 35 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 435 375 0 35 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 5 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 85 70 0 10 5
Russian 180 155 0 10 10
Serbian 15 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 5 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 40 35 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 5 15
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 40 35 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 5
Turkish 25 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 455 375 0 35 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 20 15 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 435 355 0 35 45
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 395 325 0 30 40
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 5
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 780 700 0 30 50
Indo-Aryan languages 640 580 0 20 40
Bengali 195 180 0 0 10
Gujarati 40 40 0 0 0
Hindi 80 75 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 25 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 60 0 0 5
Sindhi 10 0 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0 0
Urdu 140 130 0 10 0
Nepali 50 40 0 5 10
Iranian languages 125 115 0 10 10
Kurdish 10 15 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 110 90 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 155 145 0 0 0
Kannada 20 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 65 65 0 0 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 5 0
Korean 65 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,075 975 0 30 65
Chinese languages 1,055 960 0 30 70
Cantonese 110 90 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 160 145 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 755 695 0 15 45
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 165 160 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 125 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 110 70 5 20 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 40 5 25 5
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 5 0 5 0
Swahili 30 10 5 10 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 5 0
Creoles 15 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 100 50 0 5 50
American Sign Language 50 30 0 5 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 15 0 0 30
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 680 405 0 265 5
English and French 250 50 0 200 0
English and non-official language 380 340 0 40 5
French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 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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