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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 Pickering, CY
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 88,255 81,550 45 5,970 690
Single responses 86,375 79,960 45 5,685 685
English 69,380 65,555 5 3,805 10
French 1,115 85 25 1,005 0
Non-official languages 15,880 14,320 15 875 670
Aboriginal languages 5 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 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,930 2,505 0 275 145
Italian 1,215 1,070 0 90 50
Portuguese 480 435 0 25 25
Romanian 395 270 0 85 40
Spanish 845 735 0 80 35
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,155 1,075 0 75 5
Dutch 225 210 0 15 0
Flemish 15 5 0 10 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 845 790 0 50 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 15 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 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 1,710 1,600 0 80 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 5 0
Bulgarian 45 40 0 5 0
Croatian 105 100 0 5 0
Czech 80 80 0 5 0
Macedonian 540 515 0 15 15
Polish 540 505 0 25 10
Russian 115 100 0 10 5
Serbian 75 70 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 5 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0 0
Slovenian 50 45 0 5 0
Ukrainian 90 90 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Latvian 45 40 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 675 640 0 20 20
Armenian 130 110 0 15 0
Albanian 55 45 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 360 325 0 25 5
Estonian 50 45 0 5 0
Finnish 85 80 0 5 0
Hungarian 225 200 0 25 5
Turkic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 50 45 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 975 810 5 120 40
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 20 0 5 5
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 25 15 5 5 0
Semitic languages 945 790 5 110 40
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 845 695 5 110 35
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 0
Maltese 35 35 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,000 3,615 5 140 240
Indo-Aryan languages 3,035 2,790 0 100 140
Bengali 215 205 0 5 5
Gujarati 390 355 0 10 20
Hindi 300 280 0 10 10
Konkani 30 30 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 485 430 0 20 35
Sindhi 85 80 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 140 135 0 5 0
Urdu 1,355 1,250 0 45 60
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 950 810 0 40 95
Kurdish 15 10 0 5 0
Pashto 100 85 0 5 10
Persian (Farsi) 835 710 0 35 85
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 820 755 0 20 45
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 80 75 0 5 0
Tamil 715 655 0 10 45
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 50 45 0 0 0
Korean 135 125 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 965 850 0 25 85
Chinese languages 950 835 0 25 90
Cantonese 345 300 0 5 35
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 5 0
Mandarin 175 160 0 5 15
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 395 345 0 5 40
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 55 0 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 55 0 10 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,475 1,450 0 15 15
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0 0
Malay 65 60 0 0 5
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,340 1,315 0 10 10
Bikol 0 5 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 130 110 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 20 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 55 45 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 30 20 0 5 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 5 0
Creoles 70 35 0 30 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 5 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,885 1,590 5 285 5
English and French 165 40 0 125 0
English and non-official language 1,610 1,525 0 80 5
French and non-official language 55 15 0 40 0
English, French and non-official language 45 10 0 35 0

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

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