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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Nanaimo--Ladysmith
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 113,755 106,195 40 7,120 395
Single responses 112,765 105,480 40 6,855 390
English 101,315 96,295 5 5,000 15
French 1,565 215 30 1,320 0
Non-official languages 9,885 8,970 10 535 375
Aboriginal languages 125 120 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 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 0 0 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 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 65 60 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 55 50 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dakota 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 5 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. 10 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 895 775 0 100 10
Italian 305 280 0 25 0
Portuguese 100 85 0 15 5
Romanian 50 35 0 15 5
Spanish 440 380 0 50 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,920 2,675 0 230 10
Dutch 725 655 0 65 0
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 15 15 0 5 0
German 1,545 1,415 0 125 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 515 490 0 25 0
Danish 290 275 0 15 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 105 105 0 5 0
Swedish 100 95 0 10 0
Afrikaans 95 90 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 45 35 0 5 5
Gaelic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,145 1,075 0 50 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0 0
Croatian 165 155 0 5 10
Czech 130 125 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 265 240 0 20 5
Russian 190 175 0 10 10
Serbian 55 45 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 50 50 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 210 205 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 100 90 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 10 10 0 5 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 415 390 0 20 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 155 145 0 5 0
Hungarian 240 230 0 10 5
Turkic languages 25 20 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Mongolian 5 0 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 145 130 0 15 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 140 120 0 15 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 110 90 0 20 0
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,270 1,135 0 25 105
Indo-Aryan languages 1,160 1,035 0 25 105
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0 0
Hindi 95 85 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 965 850 0 20 95
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 105 100 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 95 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 240 220 5 10 10
Korean 295 260 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,155 1,035 0 15 105
Chinese languages 1,150 1,030 5 15 100
Cantonese 210 190 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 325 275 0 10 35
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 25 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 575 525 0 0 45
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 65 60 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 430 365 0 20 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 75 0 0 15
Vietnamese 340 295 0 15 35
Malayo-Polynesian languages 465 455 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 390 380 0 5 10
Bikol 5 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. 25 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 55 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 990 715 0 265 5
English and French 245 70 0 175 0
English and non-official language 675 620 0 50 5
French and non-official language 45 25 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011055.

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