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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 Grande Prairie, CYFootnote 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 54,695 50,575 70 3,890 165
Single responses 54,010 50,125 60 3,665 160
English 48,235 45,975 0 2,255 5
French 1,405 120 55 1,230 0
Non-official languages 4,370 4,035 5 180 155
Aboriginal languages 225 225 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 180 180 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 180 175 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 175 175 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 50 45 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 35 35 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 5 5 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 5 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 5 5 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 420 375 0 30 15
Italian 40 35 0 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 0 0
Romanian 40 30 0 10 5
Spanish 305 280 0 15 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 875 840 0 25 10
Dutch 95 90 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 670 640 0 20 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 65 65 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 40 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 585 540 0 25 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5 0
Croatian 25 20 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5 0
Polish 210 195 0 10 10
Russian 80 70 0 0 15
Serbian 10 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 200 190 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 30 30 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 20 20 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 285 240 0 40 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 120 110 0 0 10
Oromo 15 10 0 0 0
Somali 105 95 0 0 10
Semitic languages 165 130 0 35 0
Amharic 5 10 0 0 0
Arabic 145 115 0 30 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 420 380 0 15 25
Indo-Aryan languages 360 325 0 10 20
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 55 50 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 210 190 0 5 15
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 50 40 0 0 5
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 55 50 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 45 40 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 5
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 300 235 0 5 55
Chinese languages 300 235 0 5 55
Cantonese 95 70 0 5 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 145 0 5 30
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 935 925 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 80 75 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 45 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 790 780 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 80 65 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 50 35 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 15 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 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 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 685 445 5 230 5
English and French 215 20 0 190 0
English and non-official language 430 415 0 10 5
French and non-official language 20 10 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 15 5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

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