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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 East KootenayFootnote 1
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 56,200 53,230 20 2,895 55
Single responses 55,825 52,950 15 2,810 55
English 51,285 49,455 0 1,830 0
French 940 135 15 795 0
Non-official languages 3,600 3,360 0 185 50
Aboriginal languages 90 85 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 0 5 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 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 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 65 65 0 0 0
Salish languages 5 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 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. 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 550 495 0 40 15
Italian 390 370 0 10 10
Portuguese 25 20 0 5 0
Romanian 20 10 0 5 0
Spanish 110 90 0 15 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,550 1,430 0 110 5
Dutch 245 215 0 25 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,120 1,040 0 80 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 110 105 0 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 25 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 70 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 525 515 0 10 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Czech 65 65 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 90 85 0 5 0
Russian 130 125 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 130 130 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 100 95 0 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 75 70 0 0 0
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 30 25 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 15 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 180 175 0 0 5
Indo-Aryan languages 175 170 0 0 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 5
Hindi 40 40 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 70 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 160 145 0 5 10
Chinese languages 150 140 0 0 5
Cantonese 35 30 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 85 0 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 170 165 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 140 140 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 375 285 0 90 0
English and French 95 30 0 70 0
English and non-official language 255 245 0 10 0
French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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