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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 Whitby, T
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 121,030 110,970 60 9,285 710
Single responses 119,255 109,640 60 8,850 700
English 101,320 95,420 0 5,880 20
French 2,055 105 40 1,905 5
Non-official languages 15,885 14,115 15 1,060 685
Aboriginal languages 5 5 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 5 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 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,650 3,155 5 340 145
Italian 1,630 1,445 5 120 60
Portuguese 645 580 0 40 25
Romanian 330 240 0 75 15
Spanish 1,040 890 5 95 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,435 1,340 0 100 0
Dutch 545 520 0 25 0
Flemish 10 15 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 5 0
German 750 685 0 60 0
Yiddish 5 10 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 85 70 0 10 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 5 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,290 2,070 0 160 55
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 0
Croatian 135 120 0 10 5
Czech 90 80 0 10 0
Macedonian 355 335 0 10 10
Polish 840 770 0 60 15
Russian 215 185 0 15 15
Serbian 145 125 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 20 0 0 0
Slovak 75 65 0 5 5
Slovenian 80 75 0 5 5
Ukrainian 270 240 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0 0
Greek 555 525 0 20 15
Armenian 65 55 0 10 0
Albanian 30 25 0 0 5
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 395 375 0 10 5
Estonian 55 55 0 0 0
Finnish 45 50 0 0 0
Hungarian 295 275 0 10 5
Turkic languages 60 55 0 0 10
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 60 55 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 845 680 0 125 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 825 665 5 130 30
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 635 490 5 120 25
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 105 100 0 5 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,780 2,490 0 120 165
Indo-Aryan languages 2,020 1,855 0 80 90
Bengali 130 115 0 10 0
Gujarati 305 270 0 15 20
Hindi 235 225 0 0 10
Konkani 10 10 0 5 0
Marathi 35 30 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 290 265 0 10 20
Sindhi 45 40 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 75 0 0 0
Urdu 895 820 0 35 40
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 740 620 0 45 75
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 40 35 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 680 560 0 45 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 555 510 0 30 20
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 45 35 0 10 0
Tamil 455 420 0 15 15
Telugu 40 35 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 50 45 0 5 0
Korean 195 165 0 5 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,465 1,250 0 40 170
Chinese languages 1,455 1,245 5 40 170
Cantonese 435 375 0 15 50
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 415 355 0 10 50
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 575 495 0 15 60
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 160 135 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 150 130 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 925 900 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 5 0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 845 825 0 10 5
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. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 205 165 5 35 5
Akan (Twi) 40 35 0 5 0
Bantu languages 70 50 0 20 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 15 0 0 0
Swahili 30 25 0 5 0
Ganda 5 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 25 30 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 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. 55 45 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 50 20 5 25 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 5 10
American Sign Language 5 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,775 1,330 0 430 10
English and French 310 50 0 260 0
English and non-official language 1,305 1,225 0 70 5
French and non-official language 95 45 0 55 0
English, French and non-official language 65 15 0 50 0

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

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