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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 Joliette^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	62,630	115	46,525	15,800	180
Single responses	62,250	105	46,425	15,535	180
English	540	35	45	465	0
French	60,445	5	45,715	14,725	0
Non-official languages	1,260	65	670	345	175
Aboriginal languages	135	0	130	5	5
Algonquian languages	135	0	130	5	5
Algonquin	5	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	135	0	125	0	5
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	5	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	0	0	0	0	0
Innu/Montagnais	0	0	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	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	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	425	0	265	110	50
Italian	35	0	10	25	0
Portuguese	30	0	15	15	0
Romanian	10	0	5	5	0
Spanish	350	5	240	70	45
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	40	0	10	25	0
Dutch	5	0	0	5	0
Flemish	5	0	0	5	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	25	0	10	15	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	5	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	60	0	30	25	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	10	0	5	0	0
Bulgarian	5	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	0	5	0	0
Czech	5	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	5	0	0	0	0
Russian	5	0	0	0	0
Serbian	5	0	0	5	0
Serbo-Croatian	15	0	10	5	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	5	0	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	15	0	5	15	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	20	0	15	5	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	10	0	0	5	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	5	0	0	5	0
Turkic languages	5	0	5	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	0	0	5	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	140	5	80	55	5
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	5	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	5	0	0	5	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	120	0	60	55	5
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	120	0	60	55	5
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	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.	15	0	10	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	190	35	20	40	100
Indo-Aryan languages	185	35	20	40	95
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	185	35	15	35	100
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	5	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	5	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	40	10	10	10	10
Chinese languages	35	10	10	5	10
Cantonese	20	5	0	0	5
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	0	0	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	20	5	10	5	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	5	0
Tai languages	30	0	15	10	5
Lao	35	0	15	10	5
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	15	5	5	10	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	15	0	5	5	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	10	5	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	5	5	0	5	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	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	95	5	70	20	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	90	5	70	15	0
Lingala	0	0	0	5	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	50	0	40	5	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	5	0	5	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0	0
Swahili	30	0	25	5	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	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.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	10	0	5	5	0
Non-verbal languages	10	0	5	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	5	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	375	10	100	265	5
English and French	240	0	25	205	0
English and non-official language	20	10	0	10	0
French and non-official language	105	0	70	30	5
English, French and non-official language	10	0	0	15	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: 2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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