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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. 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 77,605 74,315 15 2,555 715
Single responses 77,005 73,805 20 2,465 715
English 67,780 66,105 5 1,655 10
French 865 185 5 675 0
Non-official languages 8,355 7,520 5 135 700
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 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 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 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 755 620 0 35 95
Italian 75 65 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 5 5
Romanian 35 25 5 5 5
Spanish 605 495 0 25 85
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,250 4,830 0 45 375
Dutch 400 390 0 15 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 4,725 4,325 5 25 370
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 575 560 0 10 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 75 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 50 45 0 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 125 120 0 5 0
Russian 70 70 0 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 20 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 155 150 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 40 35 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 95 90 0 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 75 75 0 5 5
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 175 0 5 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 35 0 0 15
Oromo 10 10 0 0 5
Somali 35 30 0 0 10
Semitic languages 160 140 0 5 15
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 140 120 0 5 20
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 225 200 0 5 10
Indo-Aryan languages 190 170 0 5 10
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 60 0 0 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 25 0 5 5
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 25 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 5 0
Korean 50 50 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 380 305 0 5 70
Chinese languages 360 295 0 5 65
Cantonese 75 70 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 40 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 190 0 5 50
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Tai languages 125 30 0 0 100
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 115 20 0 0 95
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0 5
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 280 285 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 265 260 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 35 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 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. 25 20 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 5 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 605 505 0 90 5
English and French 105 30 0 70 0
English and non-official language 455 440 0 10 0
French and non-official language 35 30 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0

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

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