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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. 8
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 186,660 177,275 65 8,635 690
Single responses 185,060 175,990 60 8,340 685
English 166,670 160,720 5 5,915 20
French 2,355 390 35 1,925 0
Non-official languages 16,040 14,875 15 495 660
Aboriginal languages 1,180 1,170 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 1,135 1,130 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 1,120 1,115 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,100 1,095 0 5 5
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 15 15 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 15 10 0 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 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 20 20 0 5 0
Dakota 5 0 0 5 0
Stoney 10 15 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,000 1,655 10 155 180
Italian 120 110 0 10 0
Portuguese 65 55 0 10 0
Romanian 115 95 0 15 5
Spanish 1,695 1,395 10 120 175
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,735 4,525 0 150 60
Dutch 1,715 1,660 0 50 5
Flemish 15 15 0 0 0
Frisian 60 60 0 0 0
German 2,480 2,340 0 80 55
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 295 285 0 15 0
Danish 180 175 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 5 0
Swedish 55 50 0 0 0
Afrikaans 170 165 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 25 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,490 1,410 0 45 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 60 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 45 40 0 0 5
Czech 65 60 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 250 235 0 10 0
Russian 340 320 0 10 10
Serbian 90 85 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 535 510 0 10 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 15 0 0 0
Greek 90 90 0 0 0
Armenian 15 15 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 225 210 0 10 0
Estonian 15 5 0 5 0
Finnish 65 60 0 0 0
Hungarian 145 140 0 5 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 365 310 0 35 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 45 0 0 10
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 50 40 0 0 10
Semitic languages 310 265 0 35 15
Amharic 20 20 0 5 0
Arabic 280 235 0 30 10
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 955 865 0 15 75
Indo-Aryan languages 690 635 0 15 40
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 35 0 0 5
Hindi 150 145 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 245 215 0 0 25
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 0
Urdu 150 140 0 0 10
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 265 225 0 0 35
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 65 60 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 160 0 0 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 100 90 0 5 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 5 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 5
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0 0
Korean 305 275 0 10 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 925 740 0 15 165
Chinese languages 915 740 0 15 160
Cantonese 270 225 0 0 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 430 0 15 110
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Tai languages 150 115 0 0 30
Lao 65 55 0 0 10
Thai 85 60 0 0 20
Austro-Asiatic languages 245 215 0 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 55 0 0 10
Vietnamese 185 165 0 5 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,865 2,830 5 10 20
Bisayan languages 120 115 0 0 0
Ilocano 150 145 0 5 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,545 2,515 5 10 20
Bikol 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 160 145 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 85 85 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 15 20 0 0 0
Swahili 25 25 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 20 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 5
Creoles 25 10 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 30 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 5
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,595 1,285 5 300 5
English and French 290 70 5 220 0
English and non-official language 1,170 1,135 0 30 5
French and non-official language 95 75 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 5 30 0

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

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