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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 35,805 31,025 50 4,605 130
Single responses 35,200 30,575 45 4,450 125
English 26,940 24,140 0 2,790 5
French 1,445 80 35 1,330 0
Non-official languages 6,815 6,355 5 330 120
Aboriginal languages 2,390 2,370 0 10 10
Algonquian languages 55 50 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 30 25 0 0 0
Cree languages 25 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 20 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 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 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 5 5 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 5 5 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 5 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 2,325 2,305 0 10 10
Dakota 115 110 0 0 0
Stoney 2,205 2,190 0 10 10
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 10 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 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 475 420 0 45 10
Italian 140 130 0 10 0
Portuguese 35 35 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5 0
Spanish 285 250 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,065 875 5 190 5
Dutch 195 170 0 30 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 765 615 5 145 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 25 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 460 415 0 35 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 100 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 150 140 0 10 0
Russian 60 55 0 10 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 70 5 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 60 55 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 80 70 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 55 0 10 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 55 50 0 10 0
Amharic 15 20 0 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 5 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 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 180 180 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 160 155 0 5 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 55 55 0 0 0
Konkani 15 15 0 0 0
Marathi 20 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 40 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 685 615 0 5 65
Korean 200 190 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 175 155 0 5 10
Chinese languages 170 155 0 10 15
Cantonese 45 35 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 90 0 0 5
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 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 15 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 15 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 850 840 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 35 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 785 775 0 5 0
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 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 0 5 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 0 0 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 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 605 450 5 155 0
English and French 140 15 0 120 0
English and non-official language 425 410 0 15 0
French and non-official language 35 25 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 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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