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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 Powell River^{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	19,710	18,455	5	1,225	25
Single responses	19,555	18,345	10	1,180	25
English	17,530	16,855	0	670	0
French	515	85	5	425	0
Non-official languages	1,510	1,405	0	85	15
Aboriginal languages	55	55	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	5	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	5	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	0	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0	0	0
Wetsuweten	0	0	0	0	0
Chilcotin	5	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	50	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.	45	45	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	5	0	0	0
Gitksan	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian	5	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	345	330	0	15	5
Italian	290	280	0	5	5
Portuguese	10	15	0	0	0
Romanian	0	0	0	0	0
Spanish	40	40	0	5	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	610	570	0	45	0
Dutch	200	185	0	15	0
Flemish	5	5	0	0	0
Frisian	5	5	0	0	0
German	305	285	0	25	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	65	65	0	0	0
Danish	35	35	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	10	0	0	0
Swedish	15	15	0	0	0
Afrikaans	25	30	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	5	0	0	5	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	160	140	0	10	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	10	0	0	0
Czech	15	10	0	5	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	55	50	0	5	0
Russian	30	25	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	5	5	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	5	0	0	0
Ukrainian	40	35	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Latvian	10	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	5	0	0	0
Greek	15	15	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	50	50	0	0	0
Estonian	5	5	0	0	0
Finnish	20	20	0	0	0
Hungarian	25	30	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	40	40	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	40	40	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	5	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	40	35	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	25	20	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	25	20	0	5	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	5	0	0	0
Hindi	5	10	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	15	10	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	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	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	20	20	0	0	0
Korean	20	20	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	80	65	0	5	10
Chinese languages	75	65	0	0	10
Cantonese	25	20	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	35	25	0	0	10
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	20	15	0	5	0
Lao	5	0	0	0	0
Thai	15	15	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	45	45	0	0	5
Bisayan languages	0	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	40	35	0	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Fijian	10	5	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	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	0	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	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.	5	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	160	110	0	50	0
English and French	40	10	0	30	0
English and non-official language	100	95	0	5	0
French and non-official language	10	0	0	10	0
English, French and non-official language	5	5	0	0	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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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