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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 Brome-Missisquoi^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	54,730	3,955	22,080	28,650	45
Single responses	53,750	3,930	22,020	27,755	45
English	10,250	3,650	40	6,560	0
French	42,240	20	21,805	20,410	5
Non-official languages	1,260	260	175	785	40
Aboriginal languages	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	5	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	5	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	0	0	0
Athapaskan languages	0	0	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	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	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	305	15	85	190	15
Italian	110	0	25	90	0
Portuguese	35	5	10	25	0
Romanian	10	0	0	10	0
Spanish	140	10	45	70	15
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	495	135	30	325	10
Dutch	75	25	0	50	0
Flemish	35	0	5	30	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	360	100	25	230	10
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	15	10	0	10	0
Danish	5	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	5	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	5	0	0	0
Swedish	5	0	0	5	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	180	40	5	120	5
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	0	0	0	0
Croatian	5	5	0	5	0
Czech	30	10	0	20	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	85	20	5	65	0
Russian	15	0	0	10	0
Serbian	5	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	5	0	0	5	0
Slovak	5	0	0	5	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	20	5	0	15	5
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	0	0	5	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0	0	0
Greek	20	5	0	10	0
Armenian	5	0	0	5	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	45	10	5	30	0
Estonian	0	0	0	5	0
Finnish	5	0	0	5	0
Hungarian	40	5	10	25	0
Turkic languages	10	0	10	5	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	10	0	5	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	45	0	10	35	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	5	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	40	5	5	30	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	40	0	10	25	0
Hebrew	5	0	0	0	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	20	5	5	10	0
Indo-Aryan languages	10	5	0	5	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	5	0	0	0
Hindi	5	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	15	0	5	5	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	5	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	10	0	5	5	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	5	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	10	0	0	5	0
Korean	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	55	30	5	20	5
Chinese languages	60	30	5	20	5
Cantonese	5	5	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	15	5	5	5	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	35	15	0	15	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	5	0	0	5	0
Lao	5	0	0	0	0
Thai	5	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	15	0	5	5	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	0	5	0	0
Vietnamese	10	0	0	5	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	15	10	5	0	0
Bisayan languages	5	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	10	5	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	5	0	5	5	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	5	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	5	5	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	10	0	5	0	0
Non-verbal languages	10	0	0	0	5
American Sign Language	0	0	0	5	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	975	25	60	890	0
English and French	835	15	40	785	0
English and non-official language	55	10	0	45	0
French and non-official language	60	0	25	40	0
English, French and non-official language	25	0	0	25	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: 2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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