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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. 15Footnote 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 81,455 76,000 50 5,175 235
Single responses 80,275 75,030 45 4,970 225
English 68,540 66,035 5 2,485 20
French 2,760 405 35 2,315 0
Non-official languages 8,975 8,590 10 170 210
Aboriginal languages 2,525 2,485 0 25 10
Algonquian languages 2,205 2,175 0 20 15
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 2,185 2,155 0 15 10
Cree, n.o.s. 2,170 2,140 0 15 10
Swampy Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 15 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 10 10 0 5 0
Athapaskan languages 285 280 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 285 285 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 20 20 0 0 0
Dakota 15 15 0 0 0
Stoney 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 255 210 0 35 15
Italian 20 15 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0 0
Romanian 30 15 0 10 0
Spanish 190 155 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,055 2,945 5 50 55
Dutch 125 110 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 2,680 2,585 0 30 60
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 145 145 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 95 90 0 5 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0 0
Afrikaans 100 95 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,810 1,765 0 25 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 20 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 195 185 0 10 0
Russian 115 100 0 5 10
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 5 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,425 1,405 5 5 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 125 115 0 5 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 115 110 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 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 75 60 0 5 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 40 30 0 0 10
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 40 30 0 0 10
Semitic languages 40 30 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 30 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 150 140 0 0 10
Indo-Aryan languages 140 130 0 0 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0 0
Hindi 20 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 15 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 245 185 0 0 55
Chinese languages 170 135 0 5 30
Cantonese 30 20 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 125 100 0 0 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 70 45 0 0 25
Tai languages 5 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 45 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 460 455 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 425 420 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 75 55 5 15 5
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 5
Other languages 35 25 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,180 970 5 205 5
English and French 240 65 0 180 0
English and non-official language 880 870 0 10 0
French and non-official language 50 35 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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