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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 K2B
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 32,060 27,485 3,085 750 745 3,460 10.8
Single responses 30,010 25,920 2,760 585 745 3,050 10.2
English 22,600 21,415 1,185 0 0 1,185 5.2
French 1,485 45 1,430 0 0 1,430 96.3
Non-official languages 5,925 4,460 140 585 745 435 7.3
Aboriginal 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
Algonquian 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
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 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Naskapi 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
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 475 335 10 90 45 55 11.6
Italian 90 75 5 10 10 10 11.1
Portuguese 45 30 0 10 5 5 11.1
Romanian 65 30 0 30 5 15 23.1
Spanish 265 195 5 40 25 25 9.4
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 35 15 0 15 0 5 14.3
Dutch 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 25 15 0 10 0 5 20.0
Yiddish 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
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 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
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 530 395 5 65 65 35 6.6
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 25 20 0 5 5 5 20.0
Bulgarian 35 25 0 0 5 5 14.3
Croatian 10 5 0 0 0 5 50.0
Czech 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 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
Polish 95 75 0 10 10 5 5.3
Russian 245 190 5 20 30 15 6.1
Serbian 45 30 0 5 10 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 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
Ukrainian 45 25 0 10 10 5 11.1
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 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
Greek 45 40 0 0 5 5 11.1
Armenian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Albanian 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 40 35 0 5 0 5 12.5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 40 25 0 5 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages 135 120 0 10 5 5 3.7
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 130 120 0 5 5 5 3.8
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 1,790 1,235 65 230 255 180 10.1
Berber languages (Kabyle) 15 0 5 5 0 5 33.3
Cushitic languages 400 260 30 75 45 65 16.3
Oromo 25 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Somali 375 250 25 65 40 60 16.0
Semitic languages 1,370 970 40 150 210 115 8.4
Amharic 65 55 0 5 5 5 7.7
Arabic 1,295 900 35 145 205 110 8.5
Hebrew 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
Maltese 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
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic 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
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 1,130 950 0 50 125 25 2.2
Indo-Aryan languages 610 535 0 25 50 15 2.5
Bengali 190 165 0 5 15 5 2.6
Gujarati 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Hindi 50 40 0 0 10 0 0.0
Konkani 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
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0 5 5 8.3
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 235 205 0 10 20 5 2.1
Nepali 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 510 415 0 25 70 10 2.0
Kurdish 40 30 0 0 15 0 0.0
Pashto 70 55 0 5 10 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 395 330 0 15 45 5 1.3
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 130 120 0 0 10 0 0.0
Kannada 15 10 0 5 5 0 0.0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 95 85 0 0 10 0 0.0
Telugu 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 15 15 5 5 0 5 33.3
Korean 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 680 510 0 20 150 10 1.5
Chinese languages 655 485 0 25 150 10 1.5
Cantonese 165 100 0 10 60 5 3.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fukien 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
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 170 135 0 5 30 5 2.9
Shanghainese 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
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 310 245 0 10 50 5 1.6
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 340 245 5 40 50 25 7.4
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 55 0 0 15 5 7.1
Vietnamese 265 190 0 35 40 20 7.5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 295 285 0 0 10 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
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) 250 245 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 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
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 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
Niger-Congo languages 95 45 20 25 5 35 36.8
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 70 20 20 20 10 35 50.0
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0 5 100.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 0 15 0 10 50.0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 10 5 0 10 100.0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 20 10 5 0 0 10 50.0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Edo 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
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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. 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
African languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 75 10 30 30 5 45 60.0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 10 0 0.0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 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
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 2,055 1,565 330 165 0 410 20.0
English and French 295 45 160 95 0 205 69.5
English and non-official language 1,495 1,495 5 0 0 10 0.7
French and non-official language 140 10 125 0 0 125 89.3
English, French and non-official language 125 20 30 70 0 70 56.0

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not applicable

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Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

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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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