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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 Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury, CV
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 158,700 94,925 1,670 61,770 345
Single responses 155,420 94,035 1,640 59,400 345
English 102,325 83,930 15 18,365 10
French 42,810 1,165 1,580 40,060 0
Non-official languages 10,290 8,945 45 975 330
Aboriginal languages 260 245 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 250 240 0 10 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 65 60 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 65 60 0 5 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 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 185 175 5 5 5
Oji-Cree 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,260 2,765 15 360 120
Italian 2,745 2,390 5 230 110
Portuguese 185 120 0 55 5
Romanian 40 30 0 15 0
Spanish 290 225 5 60 5
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,025 920 5 100 5
Dutch 170 150 0 15 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 765 690 0 70 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 70 60 0 5 0
Danish 30 30 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 25 25 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,805 1,615 5 165 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 285 235 0 40 5
Czech 60 60 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 535 475 0 45 10
Russian 80 65 0 10 5
Serbian 90 85 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 5 0 0 0
Slovak 55 55 0 5 0
Slovenian 60 55 0 5 0
Ukrainian 585 535 0 40 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Baltic languages 90 80 0 10 0
Latvian 40 35 0 5 0
Lithuanian 50 40 0 5 5
Greek 140 120 0 15 10
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 1,585 1,495 0 70 20
Estonian 40 35 0 5 0
Finnish 1,440 1,360 0 60 20
Hungarian 105 95 0 5 5
Turkic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 425 285 5 105 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 5 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 410 280 5 100 20
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 405 280 5 100 20
Hebrew 0 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 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 530 475 0 30 20
Indo-Aryan languages 460 410 0 25 20
Bengali 15 15 0 5 0
Gujarati 95 80 0 5 10
Hindi 80 75 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 80 0 5 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 120 105 0 5 5
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 55 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 85 80 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 500 410 0 20 70
Chinese languages 495 405 0 20 65
Cantonese 135 110 0 5 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 70 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 220 0 15 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 15 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 100 90 0 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 5 0
Vietnamese 100 85 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 140 135 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 5
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 105 0 0 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 135 60 15 55 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 95 45 10 35 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 5 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 5 0 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 15 5 5 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 10 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 5 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 10 0 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Creoles 10 5 5 0 0
Non-verbal languages 30 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 15 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 3,280 885 25 2,370 5
English and French 2,495 260 20 2,225 0
English and non-official language 635 580 0 50 0
French and non-official language 105 40 5 60 0
English, French and non-official language 45 5 0 40 0

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

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