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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 Strathcona^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	42,940	39,965	15	2,860	105
Single responses	42,625	39,745	15	2,765	100
English	39,180	37,185	5	1,980	15
French	725	95	15	610	0
Non-official languages	2,725	2,460	0	175	85
Aboriginal languages	165	165	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	10	15	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	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	5	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Michif	0	5	0	0	0
Athapaskan languages	5	5	0	0	0
Carrier	0	5	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	45	45	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.	40	40	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	50	50	0	0	0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)	10	10	0	0	0
Haisla	0	0	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	40	35	0	5	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.	55	55	0	0	0
Romance languages	330	290	0	30	10
Italian	95	80	0	15	0
Portuguese	60	55	0	0	0
Romanian	10	10	0	0	0
Spanish	160	140	0	15	10
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	1,050	950	0	90	5
Dutch	215	200	0	20	0
Flemish	5	5	0	0	0
Frisian	10	10	0	0	0
German	655	580	0	70	5
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	140	135	0	0	0
Danish	65	65	0	0	5
Icelandic	5	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	35	35	0	0	0
Swedish	35	30	0	5	0
Afrikaans	30	25	0	5	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	315	300	0	10	5
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	5	0	0	0
Croatian	45	45	0	0	0
Czech	40	40	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	90	85	0	0	0
Russian	35	25	0	5	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	10	10	0	0	0
Slovak	15	15	0	5	0
Slovenian	5	10	0	0	0
Ukrainian	60	55	0	0	5
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	115	110	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	60	55	0	0	0
Hungarian	55	55	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	15	15	0	5	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Oromo	5	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	15	10	0	5	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	15	10	0	5	0
Hebrew	5	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	150	125	0	5	20
Indo-Aryan languages	140	115	0	5	20
Bengali	5	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	10	10	0	0	5
Hindi	15	10	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	5	5	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	100	85	0	5	10
Sindhi	5	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	5	0	0	0
Urdu	5	5	0	5	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	10	5	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	5	0	0	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	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	75	70	0	5	0
Korean	30	30	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	95	85	0	0	5
Chinese languages	85	80	0	0	5
Cantonese	15	15	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	5	5	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	10	15	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	55	55	0	0	5
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	5	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Tai languages	10	15	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	10	15	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	160	115	0	15	30
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	5	0	0	0
Vietnamese	160	115	0	15	35
Malayo-Polynesian languages	180	170	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	15	15	0	0	0
Ilocano	15	10	0	0	0
Malay	10	10	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	130	130	0	5	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	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	0	0
Non-verbal languages	5	0	0	0	5
American Sign Language	5	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	315	220	0	95	5
English and French	85	25	0	60	0
English and non-official language	205	190	0	10	5
French and non-official language	15	5	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	15	0	0	15	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%.

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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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