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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), 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 first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Halifax
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 90,460 87,750 2,060 330 320 2,225 2.5
Single responses 88,975 86,475 1,950 230 320 2,065 2.3
English 83,250 81,970 1,280 0 0 1,280 1.5
French 720 80 645 0 0 645 89.6
Non-official languages 5,005 4,430 25 230 320 140 2.8
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Romance languages 265 205 5 45 10 25 9.4
Italian 55 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Portuguese 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Romanian 20 15 0 10 0 0 0.0
Spanish 165 125 0 30 5 15 9.1
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 135 105 0 30 5 15 11.1
Dutch 10 5 0 10 0 5 50.0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 100 80 0 20 0 10 10.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 360 305 0 35 25 15 4.2
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Croatian 25 25 0 5 0 0 0.0
Czech 20 20 0 5 5 0 0.0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Polish 75 60 0 10 5 5 6.7
Russian 160 135 0 10 10 5 3.1
Serbian 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Baltic languages 5 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 125 105 0 5 10 0 0.0
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Hungarian 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages 80 70 0 5 5 5 6.3
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 65 60 0 0 5 5 7.7
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,210 1,065 10 55 75 40 3.3
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 1,185 1,045 10 55 75 40 3.4
Amharic 35 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
Arabic 1,115 985 10 50 70 35 3.1
Hebrew 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 20 10 0 0 0 5 25.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 735 660 0 20 55 10 1.4
Indo-Aryan languages 330 300 0 10 20 5 1.5
Bengali 100 95 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hindi 85 75 0 0 5 0 0.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 65 50 0 5 10 5 7.7
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 395 355 0 10 30 5 1.3
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Persian (Farsi) 385 345 0 15 35 5 1.3
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 100 100 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 60 60 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 70 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 130 115 0 5 5 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,385 1,280 0 10 95 10 0.7
Chinese languages 1,380 1,280 5 10 95 5 0.4
Cantonese 95 70 0 0 25 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 335 315 0 5 15 5 1.5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Chinese, n.o.s. 945 885 5 5 50 5 0.5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tai languages 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 10 10 0 0 5 5 50.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 80 75 5 0 5 5 6.3
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 75 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 135 130 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 135 130 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 70 45 10 15 0 15 21.4
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages 40 25 5 10 0 10 25.0
Lingala 10 0 5 0 0 0 0.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 10 5 0 5 5 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Wolof 5 0 5 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Non-verbal languages 35 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 1,485 1,270 110 100 0 160 10.8
English and French 185 30 75 75 0 115 62.2
English and non-official language 1,230 1,220 10 0 0 10 0.8
French and non-official language 20 10 20 0 0 15 75.0
English, French and non-official language 45 10 10 25 0 20 44.4

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not applicable

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011040.

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