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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 Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
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 138,435 120,590 130 17,000 710
Single responses 137,685 120,225 120 16,625 715
English 127,635 115,815 5 11,780 35
French 5,190 550 105 4,530 0
Non-official languages 4,860 3,860 10 315 675
Aboriginal languages 105 105 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 100 100 0 5 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 105 100 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 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 5 5 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 350 255 5 80 20
Italian 60 35 0 25 0
Portuguese 50 35 0 10 0
Romanian 20 15 5 0 0
Spanish 230 170 5 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 885 795 0 80 5
Dutch 470 440 0 25 5
Flemish 25 20 0 0 0
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 295 250 0 45 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 40 0 5 0
Danish 25 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 5 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 330 285 5 35 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 5 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 20 0 5 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 65 50 0 15 0
Russian 105 95 0 10 5
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 5 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 95 85 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 65 0 10 5
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 50 0 10 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 315 260 0 45 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 25 0 0 10
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0 10
Semitic languages 285 235 0 45 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 265 220 0 40 5
Hebrew 10 10 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 495 425 0 10 55
Indo-Aryan languages 285 240 0 10 35
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 5
Nepali 95 65 0 0 30
Iranian languages 210 185 0 0 20
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 0 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 55 0 0 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 5 5
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 75 70 0 0 0
Korean 135 120 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,640 1,085 0 20 540
Chinese languages 1,595 1,050 0 20 525
Cantonese 100 65 0 5 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 295 215 0 5 70
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 745 0 10 425
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 15 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 10
Tai languages 15 10 0 0 5
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 5 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 35 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 130 125 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 20 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 10 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. 15 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 750 360 5 375 5
English and French 440 105 0 335 0
English and non-official language 255 240 0 20 5
French and non-official language 35 20 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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