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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 Dufferin
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 56,365 53,225 15 2,990 140
Single responses 55,965 52,910 10 2,905 145
English 51,310 49,180 0 2,125 5
French 605 75 10 530 0
Non-official languages 4,050 3,660 0 250 135
Aboriginal languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,120 1,025 0 75 20
Italian 455 420 0 30 10
Portuguese 395 365 0 20 15
Romanian 55 45 0 10 0
Spanish 220 200 0 20 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,315 1,195 0 75 40
Dutch 440 415 0 30 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 790 700 0 50 40
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 70 70 0 0 0
Danish 45 50 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 650 590 0 45 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 80 80 0 5 0
Czech 40 40 0 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 330 295 0 20 15
Russian 45 35 0 5 5
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 70 60 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 55 50 0 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 155 140 0 10 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 25 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 115 100 0 5 5
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 90 80 0 10 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 90 75 0 10 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 45 0 10 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 5 0
Maltese 35 30 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 235 205 0 15 15
Indo-Aryan languages 210 180 0 15 15
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 125 105 0 5 15
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0 5
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0 5
Korean 45 45 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 80 65 0 5 5
Chinese languages 70 65 0 0 5
Cantonese 25 20 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 35 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 25 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 135 130 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 110 0 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 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 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 20 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 400 315 0 85 0
English and French 95 25 0 70 0
English and non-official language 280 275 0 10 0
French and non-official language 20 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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

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