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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 Peterborough
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 133,500 124,685 30 8,515 265
Single responses 132,755 124,195 30 8,265 260
English 124,325 117,735 5 6,555 25
French 1,435 170 25 1,240 0
Non-official languages 7,000 6,295 5 470 230
Aboriginal languages 100 100 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 95 90 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 80 80 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 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 0 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 945 830 0 95 15
Italian 420 370 0 40 5
Portuguese 125 115 0 10 0
Romanian 60 45 0 10 0
Spanish 335 300 0 30 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,060 1,925 0 125 5
Dutch 770 730 0 40 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 20 15 0 5 0
German 1,130 1,040 0 75 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 110 105 0 5 0
Danish 55 55 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,040 935 0 85 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0 0
Czech 90 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 5 0
Polish 535 480 0 45 5
Russian 120 105 0 10 5
Serbian 25 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 135 120 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 5 0
Greek 110 95 0 10 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 85 75 5 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 295 260 0 25 5
Estonian 35 35 0 0 0
Finnish 110 100 0 10 0
Hungarian 145 125 0 10 5
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 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 225 190 0 20 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 210 175 0 25 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 165 130 0 20 10
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 35 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 680 600 0 30 50
Indo-Aryan languages 535 475 0 20 40
Bengali 40 35 0 5 0
Gujarati 180 155 0 5 15
Hindi 75 70 0 5 5
Konkani 5 10 0 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 65 0 0 10
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 120 110 0 5 10
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 140 130 0 10 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 100 95 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 0
Tamil 60 60 0 5 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 35 0 0 5
Korean 210 190 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 565 490 0 20 60
Chinese languages 545 470 0 15 60
Cantonese 95 90 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 100 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 330 280 0 10 45
Tibetan languages 20 20 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 200 175 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 65 0 0 5
Vietnamese 135 110 0 10 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 150 150 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 115 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 60 55 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 45 35 0 5 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 40 10 0 0 30
American Sign Language 20 5 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 745 485 0 255 0
English and French 250 55 0 195 0
English and non-official language 445 405 0 40 0
French and non-official language 35 25 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0

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

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