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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. 2
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 65,025 52,090 265 11,455 1,220
Single responses 63,885 51,315 260 11,095 1,215
English 39,320 35,470 5 3,825 25
French 7,575 275 245 7,055 5
Non-official languages 16,995 15,570 10 220 1,190
Aboriginal languages 130 130 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 120 115 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 15 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 95 95 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 15 15 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 240 215 0 15 15
Italian 25 20 0 5 0
Portuguese 45 40 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 165 140 0 10 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 14,015 12,950 10 145 910
Dutch 270 250 0 10 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 13,680 12,640 5 130 905
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,695 1,435 0 25 230
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 95 90 0 0 0
Russian 1,065 830 0 5 225
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 25 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 470 455 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 50 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 45 35 0 5 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 45 35 0 5 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 30 20 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 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 75 70 0 0 5
Indo-Aryan languages 65 65 0 0 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 40 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 5 0
Korean 55 50 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 55 50 0 0 5
Chinese languages 55 45 0 5 5
Cantonese 15 10 0 0 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 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 30 0 5 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0 5
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 470 450 0 10 15
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 435 420 0 5 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 15 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,145 775 10 355 10
English and French 370 35 5 325 0
English and non-official language 705 680 0 15 10
French and non-official language 65 50 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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

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