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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 L4T
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 38,930 36,050 245 295 2,340 395 1.0
Single responses 34,860 32,040 220 250 2,340 350 1.0
English 20,390 20,275 110 0 0 110 0.5
French 115 15 95 0 0 100 87.0
Non-official languages 14,360 11,745 10 255 2,340 140 1.0
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 1,480 1,150 0 30 290 20 1.4
Italian 855 650 0 10 195 10 1.2
Portuguese 135 100 0 5 25 5 3.7
Romanian 15 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Spanish 470 390 0 15 65 5 1.1
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 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
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 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
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 260 240 0 5 20 0 0.0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 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
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 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
Croatian 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Polish 170 155 0 5 10 5 2.9
Russian 15 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Serbian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovak 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
Slovenian 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 40 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Estonian 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
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages 65 50 0 0 15 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 65 45 0 0 10 0 0.0
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 210 190 0 5 20 0 0.0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 190 170 0 0 20 0 0.0
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 80 70 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Maltese 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 70 60 0 0 10 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 10,655 8,595 5 175 1,885 95 0.9
Indo-Aryan languages 10,565 8,510 10 170 1,880 90 0.9
Bengali 230 200 0 10 15 10 4.3
Gujarati 800 640 0 10 150 10 1.3
Hindi 765 685 0 10 65 5 0.7
Konkani 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Marathi 65 65 0 5 5 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 7,095 5,495 5 105 1,490 55 0.8
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 120 115 0 5 0 0 0.0
Urdu 1,385 1,210 0 20 150 15 1.1
Nepali 95 90 0 0 10 5 5.3
Iranian languages 45 45 0 5 5 0 0.0
Kurdish 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
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 5 0 5 20.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 910 830 0 20 55 15 1.6
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 155 145 0 5 10 0 0.0
Tamil 545 490 5 15 40 10 1.8
Telugu 200 185 0 0 10 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 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
Korean 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 135 110 0 0 25 0 0.0
Chinese languages 130 110 0 0 25 5 3.8
Cantonese 40 25 0 0 15 0 0.0
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 45 35 0 5 0 0 0.0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 40 0 0 10 0 0.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 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
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 110 90 0 5 10 5 4.5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 105 85 0 5 10 0 0.0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 225 215 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 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
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 200 190 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 175 170 5 5 0 5 2.9
Akan (Twi) 125 120 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 10 10 5 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 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 5 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 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
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 5 5 50.0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 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
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 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
Multiple responses 4,075 4,010 25 40 0 45 1.1
English and French 40 20 10 10 0 15 37.5
English and non-official language 3,960 3,955 0 0 0 0 0.0
French and non-official language 10 0 5 0 0 10 100.0
English, French and non-official language 70 30 10 25 0 25 35.7

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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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