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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Stormont, Dundas and GlengarryFootnote 1
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 109,440 65,390 1,525 42,360 165
Single responses 107,265 64,905 1,505 40,690 165
English 78,675 60,580 10 18,075 10
French 23,540 605 1,460 21,465 5
Non-official languages 5,050 3,710 35 1,145 155
Aboriginal languages 65 55 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 5 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Mohawk 40 35 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Romance languages 540 255 15 260 15
Italian 260 115 5 145 5
Portuguese 55 25 0 25 0
Romanian 35 15 0 15 0
Spanish 190 100 10 70 10
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,850 1,470 10 355 10
Dutch 815 710 0 100 0
Flemish 25 15 0 10 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 915 660 5 235 10
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 70 55 0 10 0
Danish 40 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 370 245 5 115 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5 0
Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Czech 35 20 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 125 95 5 25 0
Russian 55 30 0 20 5
Serbian 15 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 10 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 65 35 0 25 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Latvian 10 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 145 100 0 45 0
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 170 130 0 45 0
Estonian 20 15 0 5 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 135 95 0 35 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 110 5 85 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 210 115 5 85 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 5
Arabic 200 105 5 80 10
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 820 675 0 85 55
Indo-Aryan languages 745 615 0 85 50
Bengali 15 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 55 45 0 10 5
Hindi 30 30 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 135 0 5 15
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 475 380 0 70 25
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 70 65 0 0 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 45 40 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 365 300 0 45 20
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 355 295 0 45 15
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0 5
Korean 35 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 150 105 0 20 20
Chinese languages 150 105 0 20 25
Cantonese 30 15 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 70 0 10 10
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 5 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 5 5 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 75 55 0 20 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 50 0 15 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 90 80 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 65 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 5 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 5 5 5 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 20 0 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 5 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 5
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,175 485 20 1,670 0
English and French 1,705 170 10 1,525 0
English and non-official language 335 295 0 40 5
French and non-official language 70 15 10 45 0
English, French and non-official language 55 10 0 50 0

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Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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