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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. 13Footnote 1
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 46,200 43,500 15 2,590 90
Single responses 45,700 43,080 10 2,510 95
English 39,670 37,870 0 1,800 10
French 650 80 10 560 0
Non-official languages 5,370 5,130 5 150 90
Aboriginal languages 85 80 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 80 75 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 25 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 45 50 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 675 605 0 55 10
Italian 200 185 0 15 0
Portuguese 370 330 0 25 15
Romanian 20 15 0 0 5
Spanish 85 75 0 10 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,070 2,015 0 30 20
Dutch 180 180 0 5 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 1,810 1,760 0 30 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 50 0 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 30 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,955 1,890 5 40 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 95 90 0 5 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 625 605 0 10 5
Russian 95 85 0 0 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 35 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,035 1,010 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 30 25 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 65 60 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 5 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 0 5
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 20 20 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0 5
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 150 135 0 0 10
Indo-Aryan languages 145 125 0 0 10
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 105 0 5 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 20 15 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 60 60 0 0 5
Chinese languages 65 60 0 0 5
Cantonese 10 10 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 45 0 0 0
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 40 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 40 0 0 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 140 140 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 135 130 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 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. 0 0 5 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 5 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 500 415 0 85 0
English and French 85 25 0 65 0
English and non-official language 385 370 0 15 0
French and non-official language 20 20 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 10 0 0 0

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Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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

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