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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 Kirkland, 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 21,070 3,900 610 16,315 255
Single responses 20,100 3,785 580 15,475 255
English 9,020 2,220 10 6,790 0
French 4,430 10 395 4,020 0
Non-official languages 6,645 1,555 175 4,665 250
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 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 5 5 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 2,385 155 80 2,095 60
Italian 1,710 70 35 1,565 35
Portuguese 160 15 5 140 5
Romanian 155 10 15 125 10
Spanish 360 60 25 265 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 285 125 0 160 0
Dutch 30 15 0 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 240 100 0 130 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 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 620 165 15 425 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 5 0
Bulgarian 25 5 5 20 0
Croatian 35 10 0 25 5
Czech 25 10 0 15 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5 0
Polish 230 60 5 160 0
Russian 150 35 5 95 10
Serbian 10 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 15 0 10 0
Slovenian 15 5 0 10 0
Ukrainian 105 20 0 80 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 10 0
Latvian 10 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 475 95 5 370 5
Armenian 105 5 0 100 5
Albanian 15 0 0 10 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 100 45 0 55 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 85 35 0 55 5
Turkic languages 35 10 0 20 5
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 5 0
Turkish 20 10 0 10 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 685 125 40 500 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 680 125 35 495 25
Amharic 5 0 5 5 0
Arabic 650 120 35 475 20
Hebrew 20 5 0 15 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 855 375 5 420 50
Indo-Aryan languages 565 300 0 225 35
Bengali 35 15 0 20 0
Gujarati 75 35 0 35 0
Hindi 65 50 0 20 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 230 110 0 95 25
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 150 80 0 60 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 285 70 5 195 15
Kurdish 0 0 0 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 285 70 0 195 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 65 40 0 25 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 10 0 15 0
Tamil 45 30 0 15 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 5 0
Korean 80 40 0 35 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 620 295 5 260 55
Chinese languages 620 295 10 260 60
Cantonese 110 45 5 50 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 30 0 50 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 420 215 10 155 40
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 10 0 0 10 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 20 5 50 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 5 5
Vietnamese 80 20 5 50 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 75 45 0 25 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 5 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 30 0 25 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 30 10 5 20 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 0 5 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 0 0 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 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 0 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Creoles 90 0 15 70 0
Non-verbal languages 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 975 115 25 835 5
English and French 425 10 0 410 0
English and non-official language 305 95 5 200 0
French and non-official language 100 0 20 75 5
English, French and non-official language 150 0 5 150 0

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

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