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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 Calgary West / Calgary-Ouest
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 148,130 132,210 100 14,235 1,590
Single responses 145,505 130,225 95 13,615 1,570
English 110,760 101,485 5 9,240 35
French 2,515 150 60 2,310 0
Non-official languages 32,225 28,595 30 2,065 1,535
Aboriginal languages 80 75 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 45 45 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 20 20 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 20 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 20 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 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 5 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 5 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 20 25 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 0 0 0
Stoney 20 20 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,190 3,470 10 530 180
Italian 730 610 0 105 15
Portuguese 330 285 0 20 20
Romanian 565 400 0 135 25
Spanish 2,560 2,170 10 260 125
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,350 3,025 0 295 30
Dutch 755 680 0 70 0
Flemish 20 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 2,020 1,825 0 185 10
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 375 335 5 25 10
Danish 170 155 0 10 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 145 130 0 5 10
Swedish 50 35 5 15 0
Afrikaans 170 160 0 0 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 4,570 4,085 5 345 135
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 5
Bosnian 110 100 0 5 5
Bulgarian 210 170 0 30 10
Croatian 370 345 0 15 5
Czech 220 200 0 10 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 1,320 1,170 0 100 50
Russian 1,040 925 5 70 45
Serbian 320 260 0 50 10
Serbo-Croatian 85 80 0 5 0
Slovak 210 200 0 5 0
Slovenian 50 50 0 5 0
Ukrainian 610 565 0 40 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 40 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 5 0
Greek 450 405 0 35 5
Armenian 40 25 0 10 0
Albanian 200 180 0 5 10
Georgian 5 10 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 520 475 0 30 15
Estonian 20 15 0 0 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 445 410 0 25 15
Turkic languages 245 210 0 15 15
Azerbaijani 25 25 0 0 0
Turkish 195 165 0 15 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Mongolian 40 35 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,065 1,715 5 245 100
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 5 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 90 90 0 0 5
Oromo 35 35 0 0 0
Somali 55 55 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,960 1,620 0 235 95
Amharic 105 100 0 5 5
Arabic 1,735 1,415 5 225 95
Hebrew 35 25 0 5 5
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 70 70 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,875 3,580 0 170 130
Indo-Aryan languages 2,665 2,490 0 90 80
Bengali 310 300 0 5 5
Gujarati 395 365 0 25 10
Hindi 380 355 0 25 5
Konkani 15 15 0 0 0
Marathi 50 50 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 625 575 0 15 35
Sindhi 95 85 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 110 105 0 0 0
Urdu 600 570 0 10 20
Nepali 85 70 0 5 5
Iranian languages 1,165 1,040 0 80 45
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 40 30 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,110 990 5 75 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 45 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 415 400 0 5 5
Kannada 30 25 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 145 0 5 5
Tamil 175 165 0 5 5
Telugu 60 60 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 350 310 0 15 20
Korean 2,320 2,050 0 60 205
Sino-Tibetan languages 6,265 5,510 0 155 600
Chinese languages 6,140 5,400 0 155 585
Cantonese 1,865 1,645 0 40 180
Chaochow (Teochow) 15 10 0 0 0
Fukien 35 30 0 0 0
Hakka 15 10 0 5 0
Mandarin 1,395 1,225 0 35 130
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 10
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,785 2,450 0 75 265
Tibetan languages 100 85 0 0 10
Burmese 15 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Tai languages 60 60 0 0 0
Lao 10 15 0 0 0
Thai 50 45 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 625 545 0 35 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 5 0
Vietnamese 580 500 0 30 45
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,045 2,005 0 25 15
Bisayan languages 115 115 0 0 0
Ilocano 90 85 0 5 0
Malay 90 85 0 5 5
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,710 1,685 0 15 10
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 10 0 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages 280 240 0 35 5
Akan (Twi) 30 30 0 0 0
Bantu languages 85 70 0 15 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 35 30 0 10 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 5
Edo 10 5 0 0 0
Igbo 50 50 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 75 0 20 0
African languages, n.i.e. 110 110 0 0 0
Creoles 40 15 0 25 0
Non-verbal languages 25 5 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,630 1,985 10 620 20
English and French 415 45 0 365 0
English and non-official language 2,030 1,890 0 125 15
French and non-official language 125 45 5 75 0
English, French and non-official language 65 10 0 50 0

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

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