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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 Comox, T^{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	13,625	11,975	15	1,615	10
Single responses	13,515	11,930	15	1,550	10
English	12,365	11,250	0	1,110	5
French	410	25	10	370	0
Non-official languages	740	660	0	70	10
Aboriginal languages	15	10	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	10	10	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	10	10	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	10	10	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	5	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages	0	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	5	0	0	0
Romance languages	105	80	0	20	5
Italian	35	25	0	10	0
Portuguese	20	20	0	0	0
Romanian	5	5	0	5	5
Spanish	45	30	0	15	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	375	330	0	35	5
Dutch	80	75	0	5	0
Flemish	5	5	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	235	205	0	25	5
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	35	35	0	0	0
Danish	15	15	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	5	10	0	0	0
Swedish	15	10	0	0	0
Afrikaans	15	10	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Welsh	5	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	75	70	0	0	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	5	0	5	0
Croatian	5	5	0	0	0
Czech	10	10	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	10	15	0	5	0
Russian	10	5	0	0	0
Serbian	5	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	5	0	0	0
Ukrainian	30	30	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	5	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	20	15	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	5	5	0	0	0
Hungarian	15	10	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	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	0	5	0	0	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	0	5	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	5	0	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	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	20	15	0	5	0
Indo-Aryan languages	20	20	0	5	0
Bengali	5	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	5	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	10	5	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	5	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	5	0	0	0
Iranian languages	5	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	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	0	0	0	0
Japanese	20	15	0	0	0
Korean	25	20	0	5	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	45	45	0	0	0
Chinese languages	45	40	0	5	5
Cantonese	15	10	0	0	5
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.	25	25	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	5	5	0	0	0
Lao	0	5	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	35	35	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	0	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	30	25	0	0	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	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	0	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	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	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	105	50	5	60	0
English and French	60	5	0	55	0
English and non-official language	45	40	0	5	0
French and non-official language	0	0	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	5	0

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Footnote(s)

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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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