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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 V3R
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 54,795 51,165 435 315 2,885 595 1.1
Single responses 49,780 46,230 400 270 2,885 530 1.1
English 34,305 34,080 230 0 0 230 0.7
French 150 10 140 0 0 140 93.3
Non-official languages 15,320 12,145 30 265 2,885 160 1.0
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 790 640 10 50 90 35 4.4
Italian 40 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
Portuguese 90 75 5 5 10 5 5.6
Romanian 60 50 0 5 5 5 8.3
Spanish 605 480 5 40 75 25 4.1
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 80 75 0 5 5 0 0.0
Dutch 15 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 65 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afrikaans 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
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 930 835 5 20 80 15 1.6
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 65 55 0 0 10 0 0.0
Czech 50 50 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 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
Polish 455 415 0 5 30 0 0.0
Russian 195 165 5 5 15 5 2.6
Serbian 50 40 0 5 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slovenian 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
Ukrainian 40 30 0 5 5 5 12.5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 30 30 0 0 5 5 16.7
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Albanian 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 95 85 0 0 10 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 90 80 0 0 10 0 0.0
Turkic languages 25 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 25 15 0 5 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 1,140 700 0 15 425 10 0.9
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 75 55 0 0 20 0 0.0
Oromo 25 15 0 0 10 0 0.0
Somali 55 40 0 0 10 0 0.0
Semitic languages 1,065 645 0 20 400 10 0.9
Amharic 25 20 0 5 5 5 20.0
Arabic 755 470 0 15 270 10 1.3
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 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
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 280 150 0 0 130 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 3,875 3,035 0 40 795 20 0.5
Indo-Aryan languages 3,585 2,790 5 35 750 20 0.6
Bengali 75 70 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hindi 480 430 0 0 45 0 0.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,715 2,000 0 30 680 20 0.7
Sindhi 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
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 80 0 5 10 0 0.0
Urdu 155 145 0 0 10 0 0.0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0 5 33.3
Iranian languages 290 240 0 5 45 0 0.0
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 260 220 0 5 45 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian 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
Dravidian languages 65 60 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 45 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 85 60 0 0 15 0 0.0
Korean 1,430 1,080 0 20 335 10 0.7
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,210 2,385 5 50 775 25 0.8
Chinese languages 3,135 2,345 5 45 745 25 0.8
Cantonese 580 410 0 10 160 5 0.9
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fukien 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 1,440 1,105 0 25 315 15 1.0
Shanghainese 10 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Taiwanese 40 30 0 0 10 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,045 785 0 10 245 10 1.0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Burmese 25 20 0 0 10 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 40 15 0 0 25 0 0.0
Tai languages 145 120 0 5 15 0 0.0
Lao 115 95 0 5 15 5 4.3
Thai 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,130 880 0 15 225 10 0.9
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 35 0 0 10 0 0.0
Vietnamese 1,080 845 0 20 220 10 0.9
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,020 1,960 0 10 55 5 0.2
Bisayan languages 85 85 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 50 50 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 50 55 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,820 1,765 0 10 50 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages 75 55 0 10 5 10 13.3
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 40 35 0 5 0 5 12.5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu 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
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 10 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 10 0 0 5 5 5 50.0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Creoles 45 10 5 25 0 20 44.4
Non-verbal languages 30 10 0 0 20 0 0.0
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 10 0 0.0
Other languages 20 5 0 0 10 0 0.0
Multiple responses 5,020 4,935 35 45 0 60 1.2
English and French 50 15 15 15 0 20 40.0
English and non-official language 4,885 4,880 5 0 0 0 0.0
French and non-official language 30 15 10 0 0 10 33.3
English, French and non-official language 55 20 5 30 0 20 36.4

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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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