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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 Leeds and Grenville
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 98,070 87,245 70 10,645 110
Single responses 97,480 86,965 65 10,345 115
English 90,520 83,495 0 7,005 15
French 3,210 230 60 2,915 0
Non-official languages 3,755 3,230 5 420 95
Aboriginal languages 25 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 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 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 10 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 390 300 5 85 5
Italian 125 95 0 30 0
Portuguese 55 35 0 15 0
Romanian 40 30 0 10 5
Spanish 170 135 0 30 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,765 1,595 0 160 5
Dutch 905 860 5 45 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5 0
Frisian 45 40 0 5 0
German 715 615 0 90 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 65 55 0 10 0
Danish 35 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 5 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 430 355 0 75 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Czech 65 45 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 185 155 0 25 0
Russian 45 35 0 5 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 20 0 10 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 80 65 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 25 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 135 125 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 5 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 110 95 0 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 40 35 0 0 0
Hungarian 65 50 0 15 0
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 70 40 0 20 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 65 45 0 15 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 35 0 15 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 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 220 190 0 15 15
Indo-Aryan languages 185 160 0 15 10
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 70 0 10 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 35 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 0
Korean 30 30 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 220 175 0 10 35
Chinese languages 215 175 0 10 35
Cantonese 45 35 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 115 0 5 30
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 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 80 70 0 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 80 65 0 5 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 120 110 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 90 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 5 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 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. 5 0 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 5 0 0 15
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 585 280 5 305 0
English and French 320 65 5 255 0
English and non-official language 240 210 0 30 5
French and non-official language 20 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 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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