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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 BaffinFootnote 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 16,850 13,805 25 965 2,050
Single responses 16,715 13,685 25 960 2,045
English 3,580 3,080 0 495 5
French 375 10 15 345 0
Non-official languages 12,765 10,600 5 125 2,040
Aboriginal languages 12,440 10,340 5 65 2,035
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 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 20 20 0 0 5
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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 12,415 10,320 5 60 2,030
Inuktitut 12,405 10,305 5 60 2,030
Inuinnaqtun 5 5 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 40 25 0 15 0
Italian 5 0 0 5 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 5 0
Romanian 10 10 0 5 0
Spanish 20 15 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 40 25 0 20 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 25 15 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 30 20 0 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 10 0 5 0
Russian 0 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 10 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 5 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 20 15 0 5 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 20 15 0 5 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 20 10 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 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 45 40 0 0 5
Indo-Aryan languages 40 35 0 5 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 15 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 5 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 35 40 0 0 0
Chinese languages 40 35 0 0 0
Cantonese 10 10 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. 10 10 0 5 0
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 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 50 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 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 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. 5 5 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. 10 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 135 120 0 10 5
English and French 5 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 130 120 0 5 5
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 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 10% but lower than 25%.

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

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