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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 Saskatoon, CYFootnote 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 218,665 202,610 105 13,930 2,020
Single responses 215,115 199,680 100 13,360 1,980
English 178,470 168,935 10 9,480 50
French 3,240 490 65 2,685 5
Non-official languages 33,405 30,250 30 1,200 1,925
Aboriginal languages 1,515 1,490 0 20 5
Algonquian languages 1,305 1,285 0 15 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 1,140 1,120 5 15 0
Cree, n.o.s. 1,125 1,110 5 15 5
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 10 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 165 160 0 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 20 15 0 5 0
Athapaskan languages 165 165 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 165 165 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 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Dakota 5 10 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 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 0 5 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 2,195 1,880 5 195 115
Italian 210 190 0 20 5
Portuguese 275 225 0 35 10
Romanian 305 245 0 40 20
Spanish 1,400 1,220 5 100 80
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,520 4,335 0 165 25
Dutch 360 340 0 20 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 3,795 3,655 0 115 20
Yiddish 10 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 205 200 0 10 0
Danish 70 70 0 5 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 85 80 0 10 0
Swedish 35 30 0 5 0
Afrikaans 130 120 0 5 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 5,495 5,180 0 145 165
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 140 130 0 0 5
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 120 110 0 5 5
Czech 65 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 485 430 0 35 20
Russian 770 695 0 30 50
Serbian 145 130 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 90 80 0 5 0
Slovak 20 15 0 5 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 3,530 3,400 0 50 75
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 80 65 0 0 5
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 40 35 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 170 165 0 5 5
Armenian 5 10 0 0 0
Albanian 40 35 0 5 5
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 410 375 0 15 20
Estonian 5 10 0 0 0
Finnish 30 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 375 340 0 15 25
Turkic languages 130 115 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 15 10 0 0 5
Turkish 90 85 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 0 5
Mongolian 20 20 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,175 1,695 5 135 345
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 190 140 0 15 30
Oromo 100 75 0 0 25
Somali 85 70 0 15 10
Semitic languages 1,970 1,540 5 115 315
Amharic 90 75 0 5 5
Arabic 1,225 930 0 100 195
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 180 165 0 0 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 465 350 5 15 100
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 5,455 4,900 5 195 355
Indo-Aryan languages 4,590 4,140 5 150 290
Bengali 855 760 0 50 40
Gujarati 295 275 0 5 15
Hindi 420 395 0 5 20
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 45 45 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 820 725 0 15 80
Sindhi 50 45 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 145 135 0 0 5
Urdu 1,820 1,630 5 70 110
Nepali 145 125 0 0 15
Iranian languages 765 670 0 35 55
Kurdish 45 40 0 0 10
Pashto 125 115 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 595 520 0 35 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 100 80 0 10 10
Dravidian languages 340 325 0 10 10
Kannada 50 45 0 0 5
Malayalam 65 60 0 0 5
Tamil 140 140 0 0 0
Telugu 75 75 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 135 130 0 0 0
Korean 355 320 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,515 3,780 0 95 635
Chinese languages 4,245 3,605 0 95 540
Cantonese 855 685 0 30 140
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 785 685 0 15 90
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 25 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,560 2,200 5 55 300
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0 5
Burmese 110 85 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 155 80 0 0 80
Tai languages 160 135 0 5 15
Lao 130 115 0 5 10
Thai 25 25 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 725 625 0 30 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 55 0 0 0
Vietnamese 670 565 0 30 75
Malayo-Polynesian languages 4,175 4,035 0 75 60
Bisayan languages 205 200 0 0 5
Ilocano 90 90 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampango 15 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 3,770 3,645 5 65 60
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 460 380 0 65 5
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0 0
Bantu languages 270 205 0 50 5
Lingala 10 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 20 10 0 10 0
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 115 95 0 10 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 65 0 15 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 25 25 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 15 0 0 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 100 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 195 180 0 5 5
Creoles 30 15 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 80 60 0 5 15
American Sign Language 30 20 0 5 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0 10
Other languages 35 25 0 0 15
Multiple responses 3,550 2,935 5 570 40
English and French 465 140 0 325 0
English and non-official language 2,725 2,560 0 125 30
French and non-official language 305 215 5 75 5
English, French and non-official language 55 20 0 40 0

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Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

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