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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 Whistler, DM^{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	9,825	8,040	10	1,740	25
Single responses	9,665	7,955	10	1,675	25
English	7,915	6,870	5	1,045	0
French	560	30	5	520	0
Non-official languages	1,190	1,050	0	110	25
Aboriginal languages	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	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	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	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	150	115	0	30	5
Italian	25	20	0	10	0
Portuguese	10	10	0	5	0
Romanian	20	15	0	5	0
Spanish	90	80	0	10	5
Catalan	5	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	250	220	0	30	0
Dutch	30	30	0	5	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	155	135	0	25	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	35	40	0	0	0
Danish	10	10	0	0	0
Icelandic	5	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	5	10	0	0	0
Swedish	20	20	0	0	0
Afrikaans	20	15	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Welsh	5	5	0	5	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	160	140	0	15	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	5	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	10	5	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	5	0
Czech	65	60	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	25	20	0	5	0
Russian	15	15	0	0	0
Serbian	5	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	5	0
Slovak	20	15	0	10	0
Slovenian	5	10	0	0	0
Ukrainian	10	5	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	5	0	0	0
Latvian	10	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	5	0	0	0
Armenian	0	5	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	15	15	0	5	0
Estonian	5	5	0	5	0
Finnish	5	5	0	0	0
Hungarian	10	5	0	5	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	20	15	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	20	15	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	15	10	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	25	20	0	5	0
Indo-Aryan languages	20	20	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	5	0
Hindi	5	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	0	5	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	5	0	0	5	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	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	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	225	200	0	15	15
Korean	35	35	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	55	45	0	10	0
Chinese languages	55	45	0	5	0
Cantonese	25	15	0	5	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	5	5	0	0	5
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	25	25	0	0	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	5	5	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	10	10	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	10	10	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	5	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	190	190	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	25	25	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	160	155	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.	5	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	10	10	0	5	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	15	10	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.	10	10	0	5	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.	5	5	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	5	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	160	95	0	65	0
English and French	55	5	0	55	0
English and non-official language	90	75	5	5	0
French and non-official language	15	10	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 10% but lower than 25%.

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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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