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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 and Forward Sortation Areas, 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 H2R
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 21,515 1,855 18,065 1,050 550 2,380 11.1
Single responses 20,295 1,675 17,215 860 550 2,105 10.4
English 1,365 1,215 150 0 0 1,215 89.0
French 16,155 170 15,980 0 0 175 1.1
Non-official languages 2,775 285 1,080 860 550 715 25.8
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 1,360 65 595 430 270 275 20.2
Italian 280 10 120 75 65 50 17.9
Portuguese 410 20 160 125 100 80 19.5
Romanian 20 0 10 10 0 5 25.0
Spanish 650 30 305 210 100 140 21.5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 10 0 0 10 0 5 50.0
Dutch 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
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 5 0 0 5 0 5 100.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 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
Danish 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
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 95 10 25 55 5 40 42.1
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 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
Bulgarian 40 0 15 25 0 10 25.0
Croatian 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
Czech 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
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Polish 5 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Russian 35 5 10 20 5 15 42.9
Serbian 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 25 10 0 10 5 10 40.0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Albanian 5 0 0 5 0 5 100.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 5 0 0 0 5 5 100.0
Turkic languages 5 5 5 0 0 5 100.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 10 5 0 0 5 5 50.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 435 20 220 140 50 95 21.8
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 10 5 5 0 0.0
Cushitic languages 15 0 5 5 5 0 0.0
Oromo 10 0 5 5 0 5 50.0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 390 25 195 125 45 85 21.8
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Arabic 380 20 195 120 45 85 22.4
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 5 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 80 35 10 25 10 50 62.5
Indo-Aryan languages 60 30 0 20 10 45 75.0
Bengali 15 5 0 5 0 10 66.7
Gujarati 5 0 0 5 5 0 0.0
Hindi 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
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Panjabi (Punjabi) 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
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 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
Urdu 25 15 0 10 5 20 80.0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iranian languages 20 0 10 10 5 5 25.0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pashto 10 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 5 5 0 5 50.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages 65 35 15 5 10 40 61.5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tamil 65 35 15 5 15 35 53.8
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 5 0 5 5 0 5 100.0
Korean 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
Sino-Tibetan languages 290 70 65 75 80 110 37.9
Chinese languages 290 65 65 75 85 110 37.9
Cantonese 70 10 10 20 25 20 28.6
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 35 15 5 10 5 20 57.1
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 195 45 45 50 50 70 35.9
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 10 0 0 5 5 5 50.0
Lao 5 0 5 5 0 0 0.0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 300 35 100 80 95 70 23.3
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 0 5 10 5 5 33.3
Vietnamese 285 35 95 75 85 65 22.8
Malayo-Polynesian languages 10 5 0 5 0 5 50.0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 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
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 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
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 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
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 5 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages 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
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 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
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 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
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 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
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creoles 55 0 35 15 5 5 9.1
Non-verbal languages 10 0 5 5 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 1,220 180 850 190 0 275 22.5
English and French 245 35 105 100 0 85 34.7
English and non-official language 135 130 10 0 0 130 96.3
French and non-official language 690 5 685 0 0 5 0.7
English, French and non-official language 145 10 50 90 0 55 37.9

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too unreliable to be published

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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-XCB2011038.


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