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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 77,600 74,315 15 2,555 720
Single responses 77,005 73,810 15 2,460 715
English 67,780 66,105 5 1,660 10
French 860 185 5 675 0
Non-official languages 8,360 7,520 5 130 700
Aboriginal languages 25 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 755 620 0 40 90
Italian 70 70 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0 0
Romanian 35 30 0 5 5
Spanish 605 490 0 25 85
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,250 4,830 5 45 370
Dutch 405 385 0 15 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 4,725 4,325 0 25 375
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 55 0 0 0
Danish 20 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 30 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 580 560 0 15 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 75 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 45 45 0 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 125 120 0 5 0
Russian 75 70 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 155 150 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 40 40 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 95 90 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 75 70 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 175 0 5 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 35 0 0 15
Oromo 10 10 0 0 5
Somali 40 30 0 0 10
Semitic languages 160 135 0 5 15
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 145 120 0 5 15
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 225 200 0 5 10
Indo-Aryan languages 185 165 0 5 10
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 0 10
Sindhi 10 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 60 55 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 5
Kurdish 5 10 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 5 0
Korean 50 50 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 375 305 0 5 70
Chinese languages 360 295 0 5 65
Cantonese 75 65 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 40 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 190 0 0 50
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tai languages 125 30 0 0 95
Lao 10 10 0 0 5
Thai 115 20 0 0 95
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 55 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 285 280 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 260 260 0 5 5
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 65 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 35 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 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. 20 25 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 605 505 0 95 0
English and French 105 30 0 75 0
English and non-official language 455 445 0 10 0
French and non-official language 40 30 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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

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