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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 K2G
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 48,930 44,060 3,090 1,025 760 3,600 7.4
Single responses 46,305 41,920 2,835 790 760 3,230 7.0
English 38,265 36,765 1,505 0 0 1,505 3.9
French 1,325 60 1,270 0 0 1,270 95.8
Non-official languages 6,710 5,100 60 790 755 455 6.8
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 5 0 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 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
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 890 605 20 160 105 100 11.2
Italian 360 290 5 25 45 15 4.2
Portuguese 65 40 0 10 15 10 15.4
Romanian 100 40 0 40 15 25 25.0
Spanish 360 240 10 90 25 55 15.3
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 75 60 0 15 0 5 6.7
Dutch 10 10 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 60 45 0 10 0 5 8.3
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afrikaans 5 5 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 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 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
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 805 605 0 135 60 65 8.1
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 20 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 30 20 0 10 0 5 16.7
Croatian 35 25 0 5 5 5 14.3
Czech 15 15 0 5 0 5 33.3
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Polish 135 100 0 30 10 15 11.1
Russian 380 295 0 55 35 25 6.6
Serbian 95 75 0 15 5 10 10.5
Serbo-Croatian 30 25 0 5 0 0 0.0
Slovak 15 15 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 30 10 0 15 5 5 16.7
Slavic 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
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 70 50 0 15 5 10 14.3
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 35 25 0 10 5 0 0.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 35 25 0 10 5 5 14.3
Turkic languages 55 35 0 5 10 5 9.1
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Turkish 50 35 0 5 10 5 10.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 940 675 15 165 80 100 10.6
Berber languages (Kabyle) 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
Cushitic languages 105 85 0 15 5 10 9.5
Oromo 5 0 5 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 100 85 0 15 5 5 5.0
Semitic languages 820 590 10 150 70 85 10.4
Amharic 35 30 0 5 0 0 0.0
Arabic 740 515 10 140 65 80 10.8
Hebrew 35 30 0 5 0 5 14.3
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic 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
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 5 100.0
Indo-Iranian languages 985 840 0 75 70 35 3.6
Indo-Aryan languages 805 690 0 50 60 25 3.1
Bengali 135 105 0 20 5 10 7.4
Gujarati 70 60 0 5 5 0 0.0
Hindi 130 115 0 5 10 0 0.0
Konkani 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
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 275 235 0 15 30 5 1.8
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 145 135 0 5 0 5 3.4
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 170 145 0 15 15 10 5.9
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 155 125 0 15 15 10 6.5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 195 170 0 5 10 5 2.6
Kannada 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
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 145 130 5 5 5 0 0.0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Korean 105 95 0 5 5 5 4.8
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,880 1,440 5 95 345 50 2.7
Chinese languages 1,880 1,440 5 90 345 50 2.7
Cantonese 460 330 5 30 100 20 4.3
Chaochow (Teochow) 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
Fukien 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
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 515 415 5 20 80 15 2.9
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 885 680 0 40 160 20 2.3
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 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
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 20 15 0 5 0 5 25.0
Lao 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 380 270 5 60 45 35 9.2
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 5 0 5 5 0 0.0
Vietnamese 365 260 5 55 45 30 8.2
Malayo-Polynesian languages 140 135 0 5 0 5 3.6
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 95 90 0 5 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 35 20 5 15 0 10 28.6
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 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
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 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
Swahili 5 5 0 5 5 0 0.0
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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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. 10 0 5 10 0 5 50.0
African 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
Creoles 35 5 5 20 5 15 42.9
Non-verbal languages 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec 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
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 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 2,625 2,140 250 235 0 370 14.1
English and French 355 60 150 145 0 225 63.4
English and non-official language 2,065 2,055 15 0 0 10 0.5
French and non-official language 75 0 75 0 0 75 100.0
English, French and non-official language 130 25 20 85 0 65 50.0

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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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