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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 (2003 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 Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
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 509,950 485,745 130 23,450 625
Single responses 508,830 485,060 130 23,015 620
English 497,560 476,760 25 20,715 65
French 2,475 600 90 1,790 0
Non-official languages 8,790 7,710 15 515 550
Aboriginal languages 2,715 2,520 5 40 160
Algonquian languages 2,050 1,865 5 35 145
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. 10 10 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 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 2,030 1,850 0 35 145
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 0 0 5 0
Mohawk 0 0 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 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 665 650 0 0 10
Inuktitut 640 625 0 5 10
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 630 500 5 100 25
Italian 70 50 0 20 0
Portuguese 95 75 0 20 0
Romanian 40 25 0 15 0
Spanish 425 355 0 45 25
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 685 570 0 110 0
Dutch 95 75 0 15 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 5 0
German 360 290 0 75 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 145 135 0 10 0
Danish 40 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 35 30 0 5 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 75 65 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 515 445 0 40 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 50 0 5 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 100 90 0 10 5
Russian 205 175 0 10 15
Serbian 25 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 5
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 40 0 10 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 5 15
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 80 60 0 20 0
Estonian 15 5 0 15 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages 50 45 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 655 545 0 60 50
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Oromo 20 20 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 635 525 0 55 50
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 590 495 5 50 45
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 950 870 0 35 50
Indo-Aryan languages 785 725 0 20 40
Bengali 200 190 0 0 10
Gujarati 45 35 0 0 0
Hindi 95 90 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 35 35 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 100 0 5 5
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0
Urdu 195 180 0 10 5
Nepali 55 40 0 0 15
Iranian languages 150 130 0 10 10
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 125 105 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 210 200 0 5 5
Kannada 15 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 65 60 0 0 0
Tamil 80 80 0 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 5 0
Korean 65 60 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,250 1,095 0 30 120
Chinese languages 1,230 1,075 0 30 120
Cantonese 155 120 0 5 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 170 155 0 10 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 870 780 0 15 80
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 35 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 325 320 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 25 30 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 260 255 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 5 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 5
Niger-Congo languages 145 105 10 25 5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 5 0
Bantu languages 85 50 5 20 5
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 30 10 0 5 10
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 5 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 40 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 140 65 0 0 70
American Sign Language 50 30 0 0 20
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 25 0 5 55
Other languages 10 10 0 0 5
Multiple responses 1,120 680 0 435 5
English and French 465 110 5 355 0
English and non-official language 580 535 0 40 10
French and non-official language 45 20 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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