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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 North Okanagan^{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	80,165	75,490	15	4,395	265
Single responses	79,570	75,010	15	4,285	265
English	71,420	68,375	5	3,025	10
French	1,100	200	5	890	0
Non-official languages	7,055	6,435	0	365	255
Aboriginal languages	140	135	0	5	0
Algonquian languages	30	30	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	25	25	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	25	20	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	10	5	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	10	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0	0	0
Wetsuweten	0	0	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0	0	0
Dene	5	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.	5	5	0	0	0
Haida	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Mohawk	5	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	85	85	0	5	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	30	25	0	5	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	5	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0	0	0
Lillooet	0	0	0	0	0
Okanagan	55	55	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	5	0	5	0
Gitksan	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	5	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	0	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	0	0	0	0
Inuinnaqtun	5	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.	5	10	0	0	0
Romance languages	450	385	0	45	15
Italian	155	135	0	15	5
Portuguese	75	65	0	5	5
Romanian	30	25	0	0	0
Spanish	190	165	0	20	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	3,350	3,115	0	215	25
Dutch	745	685	0	60	0
Flemish	20	10	0	10	0
Frisian	10	10	0	0	0
German	2,330	2,170	0	140	20
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	180	175	0	5	0
Danish	85	85	0	0	0
Icelandic	5	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	40	35	0	5	0
Swedish	50	45	0	0	0
Afrikaans	70	70	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	10	10	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	1,390	1,300	0	45	45
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	5	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	75	70	0	0	0
Czech	90	90	0	0	0
Macedonian	5	5	0	0	0
Polish	165	145	0	15	5
Russian	485	430	0	15	40
Serbian	10	10	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	5	5	0	0	0
Slovak	40	40	0	0	0
Slovenian	20	20	0	0	0
Ukrainian	500	485	0	10	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	10	0	5	0
Latvian	10	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	0	0	0	0
Greek	30	25	0	5	0
Armenian	5	0	0	0	0
Albanian	40	30	0	0	10
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	165	165	0	5	0
Estonian	5	5	0	0	0
Finnish	40	40	0	0	0
Hungarian	125	120	0	5	0
Turkic languages	15	10	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	10	10	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	40	30	0	10	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	35	25	0	10	0
Amharic	0	5	0	0	0
Arabic	30	20	0	5	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	5	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	620	525	0	10	80
Indo-Aryan languages	595	500	0	10	75
Bengali	5	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	5	0	0	0
Hindi	15	15	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	505	425	0	10	75
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	5	0	0	0
Urdu	55	50	0	0	5
Nepali	0	5	0	0	0
Iranian languages	25	25	0	5	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	5	5	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	25	20	0	0	5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	10	15	0	0	0
Kannada	0	5	0	0	0
Malayalam	10	10	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	120	105	0	0	10
Korean	65	55	0	0	15
Sino-Tibetan languages	250	205	0	10	30
Chinese languages	250	210	0	10	30
Cantonese	85	75	0	5	15
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	5	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	25	20	0	5	0
Shanghainese	5	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	130	120	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	30	25	0	0	5
Lao	5	5	0	0	0
Thai	25	20	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	115	90	0	5	20
Khmer (Cambodian)	15	10	0	0	0
Vietnamese	100	80	0	0	20
Malayo-Polynesian languages	180	180	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	20	20	0	0	0
Ilocano	5	5	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0	0	0
Pampango	5	5	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	145	145	0	5	0
Bikol	5	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	5	5	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	5	5	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.	5	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	5	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	15	10	0	0	5
American Sign Language	5	5	0	0	5
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0	0	5
Other languages	5	5	0	0	0
Multiple responses	590	480	0	110	0
English and French	115	35	0	75	0
English and non-official language	430	415	0	15	5
French and non-official language	35	25	0	10	0
English, French and non-official language	10	5	0	5	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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