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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 Welland, CY
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 50,230 41,975 235 7,760 255
Single responses 49,465 41,605 235 7,380 250
English 39,260 36,845 0 2,410 5
French 5,215 270 220 4,720 0
Non-official languages 4,990 4,485 5 250 245
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 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 0 0 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 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,105 1,860 0 90 150
Italian 1,595 1,430 5 55 105
Portuguese 50 45 0 5 0
Romanian 10 10 0 5 0
Spanish 450 375 0 35 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 510 495 0 15 0
Dutch 200 200 0 0 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 10 0 0 0
German 290 275 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 15 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 995 920 0 35 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5 0
Croatian 250 240 0 5 5
Czech 15 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 310 275 0 10 25
Russian 30 25 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 110 110 0 5 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 215 195 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 5
Latvian 10 10 0 0 5
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 570 555 0 10 5
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 550 535 0 10 10
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 170 140 0 25 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages 160 125 0 20 10
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 125 95 0 20 10
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 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 120 110 0 5 10
Indo-Aryan languages 105 95 0 0 10
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 50 40 0 0 5
Hindi 10 10 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 70 55 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 125 110 0 5 15
Chinese languages 130 110 0 0 20
Cantonese 40 30 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 55 0 5 5
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 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 5 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 40 20 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 65 15 5 50 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 770 380 5 380 5
English and French 390 50 0 335 0
English and non-official language 330 310 0 15 0
French and non-official language 40 10 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0

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

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