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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 Oxford
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 104,760 100,220 30 4,130 375
Single responses 104,025 99,645 35 3,980 365
English 93,805 90,970 5 2,815 15
French 1,070 180 20 865 0
Non-official languages 9,155 8,495 5 300 350
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 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. 5 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 985 890 0 50 45
Italian 340 310 0 20 5
Portuguese 425 385 0 15 25
Romanian 65 55 0 0 0
Spanish 160 140 0 5 10
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,280 4,980 0 125 180
Dutch 2,835 2,735 0 60 35
Flemish 240 225 0 10 0
Frisian 70 70 0 0 0
German 2,090 1,900 0 50 140
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Danish 35 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 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 1,060 975 0 50 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 60 55 0 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 685 630 5 30 20
Russian 35 30 0 5 0
Serbian 45 45 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 100 95 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Baltic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 45 40 0 5 0
Greek 110 105 0 5 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 560 525 0 20 20
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 535 505 0 10 15
Turkic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 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 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 95 80 0 10 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 70 55 0 10 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 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 240 215 0 5 15
Indo-Aryan languages 210 190 0 5 15
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 55 55 0 0 10
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 80 0 10 10
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 60 55 0 5 5
Korean 85 75 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 165 0 10 25
Chinese languages 185 155 0 10 25
Cantonese 50 40 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 45 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 70 0 5 15
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tai languages 35 35 0 0 0
Lao 25 20 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 165 135 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 140 120 0 10 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 120 115 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 100 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. 5 0 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 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. 0 5 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. 10 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 730 575 0 150 10
English and French 145 25 0 120 0
English and non-official language 540 510 0 20 10
French and non-official language 35 30 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0

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

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