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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 Division No. 7
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 63,415 58,815 50 3,200 1,355
Single responses 62,790 58,310 45 3,090 1,335
English 53,390 51,225 0 2,085 75
French 940 175 30 735 0
Non-official languages 8,455 6,910 15 275 1,260
Aboriginal languages 280 270 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 210 205 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 90 85 0 5 5
Cree, n.o.s. 90 80 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 105 105 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 5 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 10 10 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 50 50 0 0 0
Dakota 45 50 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 5 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 2,055 1,530 5 35 485
Italian 30 25 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 1,980 1,465 5 25 490
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,385 2,200 0 50 130
Dutch 125 115 0 5 0
Flemish 25 25 0 0 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 2,095 1,935 0 35 125
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 40 0 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,115 1,030 0 15 65
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 125 120 0 5 5
Russian 165 135 0 5 25
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 785 745 0 5 40
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 20 25 0 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 25 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 5 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 265 220 0 25 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 255 220 0 20 20
Amharic 150 140 0 5 10
Arabic 90 65 0 15 5
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 310 275 0 15 20
Indo-Aryan languages 280 250 0 10 20
Bengali 15 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 100 85 0 0 15
Hindi 30 30 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 75 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 5 0
Urdu 45 45 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 45 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 5
Korean 140 125 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,255 740 0 10 505
Chinese languages 1,250 740 0 10 505
Cantonese 65 40 0 5 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 200 135 0 0 65
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 980 565 0 5 410
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 25 20 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 5
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 35 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 35 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 240 235 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 5 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 45 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 25 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 15 15 5 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 135 15 15 100 5
Non-verbal languages 10 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 625 500 5 105 15
English and French 100 25 0 70 0
English and non-official language 460 440 0 10 15
French and non-official language 45 30 5 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 15 0

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

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