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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 M9W
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 40,595 38,365 330 275 1,625 470 1.2
Single responses 36,935 34,790 285 235 1,625 395 1.1
English 24,815 24,680 135 0 0 135 0.5
French 140 20 115 0 0 115 82.1
Non-official languages 11,980 10,090 25 235 1,625 145 1.2
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 2,255 1,790 10 65 385 45 2.0
Italian 695 515 5 5 170 10 1.4
Portuguese 115 95 0 0 20 0 0.0
Romanian 70 50 0 20 5 10 14.3
Spanish 1,375 1,135 5 40 200 20 1.5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 40 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 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
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 40 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 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 810 710 0 15 85 10 1.2
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Croatian 250 225 0 5 20 0 0.0
Czech 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Polish 305 260 0 5 40 5 1.6
Russian 50 45 0 5 5 0 0.0
Serbian 60 45 0 5 10 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 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
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slavic 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
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 90 75 0 0 10 0 0.0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Albanian 80 65 0 5 10 5 6.3
Georgian 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
Finno-Ugric languages 90 80 0 5 10 0 0.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 85 75 0 5 10 5 5.9
Turkic languages 30 20 0 0 10 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 30 25 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 960 840 0 25 95 10 1.0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 540 490 0 5 45 5 0.9
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 535 480 5 5 45 5 0.9
Semitic languages 415 350 0 15 50 10 2.4
Amharic 15 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 195 155 0 20 20 10 5.1
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 150 125 0 0 20 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 5,445 4,605 5 90 745 50 0.9
Indo-Aryan languages 5,015 4,235 10 75 695 45 0.9
Bengali 165 155 0 0 5 5 3.0
Gujarati 845 710 0 5 130 5 0.6
Hindi 445 415 0 5 25 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 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 3,040 2,485 5 55 495 35 1.2
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 440 395 0 5 45 5 1.1
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iranian languages 420 360 0 10 45 5 1.2
Kurdish 0 5 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
Pashto 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 380 320 0 10 45 5 1.3
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 540 465 0 10 60 10 1.9
Kannada 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 70 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 430 360 0 10 60 5 1.2
Telugu 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 110 85 0 0 30 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 370 280 0 0 90 0 0.0
Chinese languages 360 270 0 0 85 0 0.0
Cantonese 125 85 0 0 45 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 80 70 0 0 10 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. 130 105 0 0 30 0 0.0
Tibetan 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
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 300 235 5 0 60 5 1.7
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Vietnamese 290 230 0 5 55 5 1.7
Malayo-Polynesian languages 400 385 0 5 10 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Malay 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pampango 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
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 345 335 0 5 10 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 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 350 325 5 5 15 5 1.4
Akan (Twi) 225 215 0 5 10 5 2.2
Bantu languages 45 35 5 0 5 10 22.2
Lingala 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
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0 0 10 100.0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ganda 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
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wolof 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 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
Ga 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 40 30 5 10 0 10 25.0
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. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 3,660 3,570 55 40 0 70 1.9
English and French 30 15 10 5 0 15 50.0
English and non-official language 3,535 3,530 5 0 0 0 0.0
French and non-official language 40 10 30 0 0 30 75.0
English, French and non-official language 55 15 10 30 0 20 36.4

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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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