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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 White Rock, CY^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	18,695	16,795	15	1,735	150
Single responses	18,485	16,650	10	1,675	145
English	15,095	13,930	0	1,165	0
French	350	35	5	310	0
Non-official languages	3,040	2,685	5	205	145
Aboriginal languages	10	10	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	5	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	5	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	0	0	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	0	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	260	215	0	35	10
Italian	85	70	0	10	0
Portuguese	30	15	0	10	5
Romanian	35	25	0	5	5
Spanish	115	100	0	15	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	795	720	0	65	0
Dutch	125	110	0	15	0
Flemish	5	0	0	5	0
Frisian	0	5	0	0	0
German	515	465	0	40	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	115	105	0	5	0
Danish	60	60	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	20	20	0	0	0
Swedish	30	25	0	5	0
Afrikaans	35	35	0	5	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	505	450	0	35	20
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	5	5	0	0	0
Bosnian	5	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	20	15	0	5	0
Croatian	45	40	0	5	0
Czech	30	25	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	95	90	0	10	0
Russian	125	105	0	5	15
Serbian	55	45	0	5	5
Serbo-Croatian	5	0	0	0	0
Slovak	20	15	0	5	0
Slovenian	5	10	0	0	0
Ukrainian	95	90	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Latvian	0	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0	0	0
Greek	40	35	0	5	0
Armenian	5	5	0	0	0
Albanian	5	5	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	125	115	0	5	0
Estonian	25	20	0	5	0
Finnish	45	45	0	0	0
Hungarian	60	50	0	0	5
Turkic languages	10	10	0	5	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	10	5	0	5	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	25	25	0	5	0
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	25	20	0	5	0
Amharic	5	0	0	0	0
Arabic	25	15	0	5	0
Hebrew	0	5	0	0	0
Maltese	5	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	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	255	235	0	10	10
Indo-Aryan languages	240	220	0	5	10
Bengali	0	5	0	0	0
Gujarati	15	15	0	0	0
Hindi	40	35	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	5	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	165	150	0	5	10
Sindhi	5	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	0	0	0	0
Urdu	15	15	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	15	15	0	5	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.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	5	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	75	70	0	5	5
Korean	195	170	0	5	15
Sino-Tibetan languages	490	405	0	15	70
Chinese languages	490	405	0	15	65
Cantonese	60	60	0	0	5
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	5	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	245	195	0	5	40
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	10	10	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	165	135	0	5	25
Tibetan languages	5	5	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	5	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	25	20	0	0	5
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	25	20	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	190	185	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	15	15	0	5	0
Ilocano	10	15	0	0	0
Malay	0	5	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	160	150	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	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	5	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	5	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	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	5	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	5	0	0	0	5
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	210	150	0	60	0
English and French	45	15	0	30	0
English and non-official language	140	125	0	20	0
French and non-official language	15	10	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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