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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. 16
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 67,470 62,260 100 4,720 385
Single responses 66,150 61,210 95 4,470 375
English 53,115 50,760 5 2,345 10
French 1,795 95 75 1,620 0
Non-official languages 11,240 10,355 15 510 365
Aboriginal languages 1,405 1,385 0 10 10
Algonquian languages 1,040 1,025 0 10 10
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 1,035 1,015 0 10 5
Cree, n.o.s. 1,030 1,015 0 5 5
Swampy Cree 0 0 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 5 5 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 350 345 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 350 345 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,145 985 0 105 50
Italian 55 40 0 10 5
Portuguese 115 100 0 15 0
Romanian 90 65 0 20 5
Spanish 890 785 0 60 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 425 400 0 25 5
Dutch 85 75 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 190 180 0 10 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 130 125 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 480 430 0 35 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 5 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 130 120 0 5 0
Russian 100 90 0 5 5
Serbian 55 45 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 65 55 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 15 10 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 50 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 5 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,595 1,385 5 145 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 615 580 0 20 15
Oromo 40 35 0 0 0
Somali 575 545 0 20 15
Semitic languages 960 795 5 120 45
Amharic 145 140 0 5 0
Arabic 755 600 10 110 40
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 40 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 2,845 2,625 5 80 140
Indo-Aryan languages 2,655 2,460 0 55 135
Bengali 195 185 0 10 5
Gujarati 855 770 0 10 75
Hindi 340 320 0 10 5
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 45 45 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 285 0 5 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 40 0 0 5
Urdu 840 780 0 20 35
Nepali 15 15 0 0 5
Iranian languages 175 150 0 20 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 5 0
Pashto 40 35 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 130 110 0 20 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 345 325 0 10 10
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 140 0 5 10
Tamil 140 135 0 5 0
Telugu 40 45 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 670 615 0 10 50
Chinese languages 665 610 0 10 50
Cantonese 95 90 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 160 150 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 355 0 5 25
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 5 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,550 1,520 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 65 55 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,400 1,385 0 5 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 340 305 0 30 0
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 0 0
Bantu languages 175 155 0 20 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 55 60 0 0 0
Swahili 30 20 0 10 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 5 5
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 20 20 0 0 0
Wolof 5 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. 85 80 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 10 0
Creoles 35 10 0 20 5
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,320 1,050 5 250 10
English and French 210 45 5 160 0
English and non-official language 1,040 990 0 45 10
French and non-official language 40 5 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 15 0

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

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