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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 Niagara Falls, 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 82,005 75,775 65 5,325 840
Single responses 80,650 74,720 60 5,035 830
English 64,750 61,910 0 2,825 15
French 1,805 190 45 1,570 0
Non-official languages 14,095 12,625 10 640 815
Aboriginal languages 30 20 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 20 15 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 10 0 5 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 5 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) 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 0
Romance languages 5,055 4,545 5 250 260
Italian 4,065 3,690 5 175 205
Portuguese 75 65 0 5 0
Romanian 110 85 0 20 5
Spanish 805 700 0 50 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,075 1,035 0 45 5
Dutch 255 245 0 10 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 725 695 0 30 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 55 0 5 0
Danish 30 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,915 2,625 5 135 150
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 35 0 0 5
Bulgarian 195 175 0 10 5
Croatian 180 165 0 5 5
Czech 55 50 0 0 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 650 600 0 25 25
Russian 180 155 0 20 10
Serbian 1,115 980 5 50 80
Serbo-Croatian 55 50 0 5 5
Slovak 65 65 0 5 0
Slovenian 40 45 0 0 0
Ukrainian 280 260 0 5 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 175 165 0 5 0
Armenian 15 10 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 465 430 0 20 15
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 435 395 0 20 20
Turkic languages 175 160 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 165 155 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 485 420 0 45 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 55 55 0 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 55 55 0 0 0
Semitic languages 425 365 0 40 20
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 380 325 0 40 20
Hebrew 15 15 0 5 0
Maltese 10 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,020 925 0 45 50
Indo-Aryan languages 845 775 0 30 45
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 235 205 0 10 25
Hindi 120 110 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 130 0 5 10
Sindhi 20 20 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 240 225 0 10 10
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 155 135 5 15 10
Kurdish 45 40 0 5 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 85 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 95 90 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 45 0 0 5
Tamil 30 30 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 150 140 0 5 5
Korean 265 235 0 15 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 990 780 0 15 190
Chinese languages 980 775 5 20 185
Cantonese 280 185 0 15 80
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 95 0 0 15
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 570 470 0 5 90
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 375 305 0 10 60
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 370 300 0 5 60
Malayo-Polynesian languages 565 550 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 510 500 0 10 5
Bikol 5 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 95 75 0 10 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 80 60 0 15 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 40 30 0 5 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 5 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 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. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 35 25 0 0 10
American Sign Language 25 10 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,360 1,055 5 290 5
English and French 240 45 0 195 0
English and non-official language 1,040 965 0 65 5
French and non-official language 60 30 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 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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