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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Cambridge, CY
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 125,640 121,695 1,630 330 1,985 1,795 1.4
Single responses 121,755 117,990 1,535 240 1,985 1,660 1.4
English 110,780 109,665 1,115 0 0 1,115 1.0
French 435 30 410 0 0 410 94.3
Non-official languages 10,535 8,300 15 245 1,985 135 1.3
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 3,880 2,685 10 85 1,100 55 1.4
Italian 235 190 0 15 30 10 4.3
Portuguese 2,825 1,850 5 20 955 15 0.5
Romanian 150 105 0 20 20 10 6.7
Spanish 665 540 5 30 95 20 3.0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 120 115 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dutch 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 80 75 0 5 0 5 6.3
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 930 840 5 30 60 20 2.2
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Croatian 105 100 0 0 5 0 0.0
Czech 45 40 0 5 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 45 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Polish 400 365 0 10 25 5 1.3
Russian 100 85 0 10 15 5 5.0
Serbian 80 70 0 10 5 5 6.3
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovak 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ukrainian 90 85 0 0 10 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0 5 100.0
Greek 75 70 0 0 5 0 0.0
Armenian 115 100 0 10 5 5 4.3
Albanian 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 145 125 0 5 15 0 0.0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 130 115 0 5 15 5 3.8
Turkic languages 35 35 0 5 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 370 295 5 35 40 15 4.1
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Somali 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 355 280 0 30 40 20 5.6
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 310 235 0 30 35 15 4.8
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 3,035 2,540 0 40 455 20 0.7
Indo-Aryan languages 2,505 2,085 0 30 390 15 0.6
Bengali 25 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Gujarati 705 555 0 10 135 5 0.7
Hindi 110 100 0 0 10 0 0.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 945 760 0 10 175 5 0.5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 685 610 0 5 65 5 0.7
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 535 455 0 15 65 5 0.9
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 420 365 0 5 50 5 1.2
Persian (Farsi) 95 80 0 10 10 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages 140 125 0 5 10 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 45 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 85 70 0 5 10 5 5.9
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 55 35 0 0 20 0 0.0
Korean 90 85 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 585 450 0 10 125 5 0.9
Chinese languages 585 450 0 10 125 5 0.9
Cantonese 155 115 0 0 35 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 150 120 0 5 30 0 0.0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Chinese, n.o.s. 270 210 0 5 55 0 0.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 155 120 0 0 30 0 0.0
Lao 135 115 0 5 20 5 3.7
Thai 20 10 0 0 10 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 515 425 0 5 80 5 1.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 510 425 0 5 80 5 1.0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 175 170 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 150 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Non-verbal languages 35 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 3,885 3,705 90 90 0 140 3.6
English and French 170 35 75 65 0 105 61.8
English and non-official language 3,640 3,640 0 0 0 0 0.0
French and non-official language 20 10 10 0 0 10 50.0
English, French and non-official language 55 25 5 25 0 20 36.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011039.

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