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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, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 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 Peterborough
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 117,595 109,425 30 7,895 250
Single responses 116,910 108,975 25 7,665 250
English 109,395 103,240 5 6,125 30
French 1,265 140 20 1,105 0
Non-official languages 6,255 5,595 5 430 220
Aboriginal languages 100 100 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 90 90 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 10 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 80 80 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 0 5 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 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 5 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 850 745 0 90 15
Italian 375 330 0 40 10
Portuguese 100 85 0 10 0
Romanian 50 40 0 15 0
Spanish 320 285 0 30 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,660 1,545 0 105 0
Dutch 645 610 0 35 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 20 15 0 5 0
German 890 820 0 60 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 80 80 0 5 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 920 825 0 80 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 85 80 0 0 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 490 440 0 40 10
Russian 105 85 0 15 5
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 30 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 5 0
Ukrainian 110 95 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 95 90 0 10 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 90 75 5 5 5
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 240 205 0 25 5
Estonian 25 25 0 0 0
Finnish 95 85 0 10 0
Hungarian 120 100 0 15 5
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 225 185 0 25 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 205 170 0 25 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 160 130 0 20 10
Hebrew 10 5 0 5 0
Maltese 30 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 675 595 0 30 45
Indo-Aryan languages 530 465 0 20 40
Bengali 40 30 0 5 0
Gujarati 175 150 0 5 20
Hindi 75 70 0 0 5
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 65 0 0 10
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 120 105 0 0 10
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 145 125 0 10 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 100 95 0 5 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 60 55 0 5 0
Telugu 20 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0 0
Korean 195 175 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 550 475 0 15 55
Chinese languages 525 460 0 15 55
Cantonese 90 80 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 110 95 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 315 270 0 5 35
Tibetan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 200 175 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 65 0 0 5
Vietnamese 135 110 0 10 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 135 135 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 0 5 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 60 50 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 35 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 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 5 0 5 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 40 15 0 0 25
American Sign Language 20 5 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 680 450 0 230 0
English and French 225 50 0 175 0
English and non-official language 415 375 0 35 0
French and non-official language 30 20 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011031.

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