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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 Moncton, C
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 67,930 34,830 1,680 31,275 145
Single responses 66,655 34,650 1,650 30,210 150
English 43,030 32,990 10 10,030 10
French 21,275 270 1,505 19,495 5
Non-official languages 2,345 1,390 140 685 135
Aboriginal languages 25 20 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 25 15 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 15 15 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 5 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 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 325 155 10 155 10
Italian 135 50 0 75 5
Portuguese 20 10 0 5 0
Romanian 20 10 0 10 0
Spanish 155 85 10 60 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 200 155 0 40 0
Dutch 65 50 0 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 115 95 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 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 115 90 0 20 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 5 0
Russian 50 35 0 10 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 15 15 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 10 5 0 5 0
Turkic languages 10 0 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 300 60 35 200 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 10 0 5 5 0
Oromo 5 0 5 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 270 60 25 185 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 260 50 25 180 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 155 135 0 20 5
Indo-Aryan languages 100 90 0 15 0
Bengali 15 10 0 5 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 5 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 5 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 50 40 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 45 35 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 5 5
Korean 350 285 0 15 45
Sino-Tibetan languages 280 205 5 30 40
Chinese languages 250 180 5 25 40
Cantonese 60 45 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 45 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 90 0 15 15
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5
Tai languages 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 70 45 0 20 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 50 0 20 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 90 80 5 10 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 5 0
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages 285 55 85 130 15
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 150 25 40 70 10
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 0 15 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 5 5 10 0
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 70 10 20 35 10
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 0 15 10 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 15 0 5 5 0
Bamanankan 20 0 15 10 0
Ewe 15 5 0 5 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 15 20 40 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 0 0
Creoles 25 5 5 15 5
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,275 175 35 1,065 0
English and French 1,075 100 5 975 0
English and non-official language 95 75 0 20 0
French and non-official language 90 0 25 55 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 15 0

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

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