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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. 16Footnote 1
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 37,255 35,155 25 1,960 120
Single responses 36,800 34,745 20 1,910 120
English 31,075 29,980 5 1,090 10
French 960 165 20 775 0
Non-official languages 4,760 4,600 0 50 105
Aboriginal languages 2,130 2,110 0 10 15
Algonquian languages 2,095 2,070 0 5 15
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 2,090 2,065 0 10 15
Cree, n.o.s. 2,085 2,065 0 10 10
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 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 25 25 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 25 25 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 5 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 5 5 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 10 5 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 100 90 0 0 10
Italian 5 10 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 80 65 0 0 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 805 780 0 10 15
Dutch 35 35 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 645 630 0 5 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 90 90 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0 0
Swedish 30 30 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,065 1,035 0 10 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 45 40 0 0 0
Russian 55 50 0 5 0
Serbian 70 65 0 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 680 675 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 190 175 0 5 10
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 65 65 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 65 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 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 65 55 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 60 55 0 0 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0 5
Nepali 5 5 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 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 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 145 100 0 0 40
Chinese languages 145 105 0 5 35
Cantonese 25 15 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 15 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 75 0 5 20
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 0 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 270 265 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 210 205 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 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 5 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. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 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 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 460 410 0 50 0
English and French 65 20 0 40 0
English and non-official language 370 360 0 10 0
French and non-official language 20 20 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 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.

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