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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 Brantford, 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 92,425 87,715 30 4,185 495
Single responses 91,505 86,950 30 4,030 490
English 80,890 78,080 5 2,790 20
French 1,035 145 15 880 0
Non-official languages 9,580 8,735 10 360 470
Aboriginal languages 50 50 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 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 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 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 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 30 30 0 5 0
Mohawk 20 20 0 0 0
Cayuga 10 10 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,170 1,930 5 125 105
Italian 1,160 1,040 0 60 60
Portuguese 525 480 5 20 25
Romanian 115 90 0 20 10
Spanish 360 320 0 25 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,145 1,095 0 45 5
Dutch 555 535 0 15 0
Flemish 25 25 0 0 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 500 480 0 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 40 0 5 0
Danish 30 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 10 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,110 1,970 0 65 80
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 85 80 0 0 5
Czech 35 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 1,440 1,340 0 40 65
Russian 65 60 0 0 0
Serbian 90 85 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Slovak 75 65 0 5 5
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 265 260 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 150 135 0 5 5
Armenian 30 25 0 0 5
Albanian 40 35 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 525 510 0 10 10
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 500 480 0 5 5
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 325 285 0 25 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages 310 265 0 25 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 255 215 0 25 15
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 50 45 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,245 1,120 5 30 90
Indo-Aryan languages 1,160 1,050 0 30 80
Bengali 20 20 0 0 0
Gujarati 205 175 0 5 15
Hindi 100 100 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 550 480 0 10 55
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 245 235 0 10 10
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 70 65 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 70 65 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 90 85 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 5
Telugu 35 35 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 5
Korean 130 115 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 490 420 0 15 55
Chinese languages 480 420 0 15 55
Cantonese 115 90 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 70 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 240 0 5 25
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 45 45 0 0 0
Lao 40 45 0 5 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 535 455 0 10 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0 0
Vietnamese 510 435 0 10 70
Malayo-Polynesian languages 315 315 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 280 270 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 40 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 20 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 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. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 20 10 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 915 755 0 155 5
English and French 155 45 0 110 0
English and non-official language 710 685 0 25 5
French and non-official language 35 25 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 10 0

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

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