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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 Courtenay, CY^{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	23,745	21,765	10	1,865	100
Single responses	23,585	21,665	10	1,810	100
English	21,350	20,100	0	1,250	0
French	555	45	10	490	0
Non-official languages	1,685	1,520	5	70	95
Aboriginal languages	15	15	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	5	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	5	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	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	5	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	5	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.	5	5	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	5	5	0	0	0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)	5	5	0	0	0
Haisla	0	0	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	5	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	170	145	0	15	5
Italian	50	45	0	5	0
Portuguese	20	15	0	0	0
Romanian	5	0	0	0	0
Spanish	100	85	0	10	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	520	500	0	25	0
Dutch	130	120	0	5	0
Flemish	5	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	325	305	0	15	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	60	60	0	0	0
Danish	35	35	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	10	10	0	0	0
Swedish	15	10	0	0	0
Afrikaans	10	10	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	175	160	0	15	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	5	5	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	20	25	0	0	0
Czech	20	20	0	5	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	45	35	0	5	0
Russian	25	20	0	5	0
Serbian	0	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	5	0	0	0
Slovak	5	5	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	55	45	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	10	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	5	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	60	60	0	0	0
Estonian	5	0	0	5	0
Finnish	35	35	0	0	0
Hungarian	20	20	0	0	0
Turkic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	10	10	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	5	5	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	15	10	0	5	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	5	0
Oromo	5	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Amharic	5	5	0	0	0
Arabic	5	5	0	5	0
Hebrew	5	5	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	50	50	0	0	5
Indo-Aryan languages	35	35	0	0	0
Bengali	5	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	10	5	0	0	0
Hindi	5	5	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	20	20	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	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)	10	10	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	0	0	0	0
Tamil	5	5	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	20	20	0	0	5
Korean	80	60	0	0	15
Sino-Tibetan languages	250	200	0	0	50
Chinese languages	245	200	0	0	50
Cantonese	115	80	0	5	35
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	15	15	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	10	10	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	105	95	0	0	10
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	20	20	0	0	0
Lao	5	0	0	0	0
Thai	15	15	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	140	110	0	0	25
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	135	110	0	0	25
Malayo-Polynesian languages	115	120	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	10	10	0	0	0
Ilocano	5	10	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	95	95	0	0	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.	0	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	10	10	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	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.	5	5	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	0	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.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	155	95	0	55	0
English and French	60	15	0	50	0
English and non-official language	80	80	0	5	5
French and non-official language	5	5	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	0	5	0

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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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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