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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 Westmount, V
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 19,720 3,955 480 15,150 130
Single responses 19,005 3,900 460 14,515 130
English 10,835 2,705 5 8,125 0
French 3,950 15 310 3,620 0
Non-official languages 4,215 1,180 145 2,765 130
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 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 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 985 115 60 790 20
Italian 275 15 5 255 0
Portuguese 70 10 5 55 5
Romanian 110 10 10 85 0
Spanish 530 85 35 395 15
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 470 115 0 350 5
Dutch 55 15 0 45 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 260 60 0 205 0
Yiddish 75 15 0 65 0
Scandinavian languages 60 25 0 35 0
Danish 10 5 0 10 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 10 0
Swedish 30 15 0 15 0
Afrikaans 0 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 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 635 160 15 440 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 5 0
Bulgarian 45 10 0 35 5
Croatian 10 5 0 10 0
Czech 70 15 0 50 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 145 30 5 105 0
Russian 250 80 10 150 10
Serbian 45 5 0 40 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 5 0 15 0
Slovak 10 0 0 5 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 5 0 25 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 10 0 25 0
Latvian 10 5 0 10 0
Lithuanian 20 5 0 15 0
Greek 140 30 0 105 5
Armenian 65 10 5 50 0
Albanian 10 0 5 5 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 120 40 0 75 0
Estonian 15 5 0 5 0
Finnish 10 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 95 35 0 70 0
Turkic languages 35 10 0 25 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 5 0
Turkish 30 10 0 20 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 615 165 40 405 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 610 160 35 395 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 545 145 30 355 15
Hebrew 65 20 0 45 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. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 315 125 5 180 5
Indo-Aryan languages 90 55 0 40 0
Bengali 25 10 0 15 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 15 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 10 0 5 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 220 70 5 140 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 10 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 70 10 130 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 10 0 10 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 5 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 75 40 0 30 10
Korean 155 70 5 65 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 325 165 5 125 25
Chinese languages 325 165 5 130 25
Cantonese 45 20 0 20 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 30 0 20 5
Shanghainese 5 0 0 5 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 225 120 5 80 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 80 5 5 65 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 5 0
Vietnamese 80 5 5 65 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 105 90 0 15 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 80 0 10 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 10 0 5 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 0 5 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 5 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 715 60 15 635 0
English and French 380 10 0 370 0
English and non-official language 160 40 0 115 0
French and non-official language 90 0 15 75 0
English, French and non-official language 85 5 0 80 0

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

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