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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 Medicine Hat
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 71,815 68,905 15 2,495 405
Single responses 71,265 68,450 15 2,405 400
English 64,385 62,750 5 1,615 15
French 830 170 10 655 0
Non-official languages 6,050 5,530 5 130 390
Aboriginal languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 5 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 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 740 605 0 40 95
Italian 70 65 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 5 5
Romanian 35 30 5 5 5
Spanish 590 480 0 25 80
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,015 2,910 5 45 60
Dutch 245 235 0 10 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 2,655 2,570 5 20 60
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 50 45 0 5 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 565 550 0 10 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 70 0 0 5
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 45 50 0 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 120 115 0 5 0
Russian 75 70 0 0 0
Serbian 25 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 5
Slovak 15 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 150 140 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 40 35 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 90 90 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 75 75 0 0 5
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 175 0 0 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 35 0 0 15
Oromo 10 5 0 0 5
Somali 35 30 0 0 5
Semitic languages 160 140 0 0 20
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 140 120 0 5 20
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 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 225 200 0 10 10
Indo-Aryan languages 185 165 0 10 15
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 0 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 60 50 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 370 300 0 5 70
Chinese languages 360 290 0 5 60
Cantonese 70 60 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 195 0 5 50
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Tai languages 125 30 0 0 95
Lao 10 10 0 0 5
Thai 115 20 0 0 95
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 65 55 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 280 275 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 255 255 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 30 0 0 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 10 5 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 25 20 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 5 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 550 455 0 90 0
English and French 100 30 0 70 0
English and non-official language 410 395 0 10 0
French and non-official language 30 25 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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

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