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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 Charlottetown, CY
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 33,605 28,740 35 4,295 535
Single responses 33,360 28,600 35 4,190 535
English 29,760 26,330 0 3,410 25
French 725 55 30 640 0
Non-official languages 2,875 2,215 5 140 510
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 10 10 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 170 125 5 30 10
Italian 20 10 0 10 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0
Romanian 10 10 5 5 0
Spanish 135 105 0 20 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 155 145 5 10 5
Dutch 80 80 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 50 40 0 10 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 180 150 0 20 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 5 0
Russian 85 70 0 5 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 35 0 5 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 30 25 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 5 5
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 270 215 5 35 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 20 0 0 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 0 10
Semitic languages 235 190 5 35 5
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 220 185 0 35 5
Hebrew 5 5 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 425 360 0 10 50
Indo-Aryan languages 235 195 0 10 35
Bengali 25 25 0 0 5
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 30 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 5 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 0
Nepali 90 65 0 0 25
Iranian languages 185 165 0 0 20
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 185 160 0 5 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 5 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 0
Korean 85 70 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,280 870 0 10 400
Chinese languages 1,240 835 0 5 395
Cantonese 60 35 0 0 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 230 170 0 5 60
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 935 615 0 5 310
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 10
Tai languages 5 0 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 45 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 20 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 245 135 0 105 5
English and French 100 15 0 85 0
English and non-official language 125 115 0 10 0
French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 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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