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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 Lethbridge, CYFootnote 1
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 82,855 78,160 40 4,155 505
Single responses 81,945 77,400 35 4,010 495
English 71,610 68,625 5 2,960 25
French 815 95 25 700 0
Non-official languages 9,520 8,685 10 345 475
Aboriginal languages 250 250 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 240 230 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 215 210 0 5 0
Cree languages 20 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 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 0 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 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,410 1,205 10 125 70
Italian 280 260 0 15 5
Portuguese 25 25 0 5 0
Romanian 85 50 0 25 10
Spanish 1,010 865 5 80 55
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,465 2,390 0 70 5
Dutch 860 835 0 25 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 1,445 1,405 0 35 5
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 95 90 0 5 0
Danish 55 50 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,275 1,205 0 40 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 160 150 0 5 10
Czech 75 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 440 420 0 15 5
Russian 110 100 0 0 10
Serbian 35 30 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 65 65 0 5 0
Slovenian 50 50 0 0 0
Ukrainian 285 275 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 35 30 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 55 50 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 430 415 0 10 5
Estonian 5 10 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 400 390 0 10 5
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 265 225 5 20 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 25 0 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 245 210 0 25 15
Amharic 65 60 0 0 5
Arabic 145 115 0 20 10
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 930 750 0 25 150
Indo-Aryan languages 710 555 0 20 140
Bengali 60 50 0 0 5
Gujarati 95 90 0 0 5
Hindi 70 65 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 75 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 75 65 0 5 5
Nepali 270 145 0 0 125
Iranian languages 200 185 0 5 15
Kurdish 15 10 0 0 5
Pashto 25 20 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 160 150 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 320 300 0 5 20
Korean 130 130 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 860 725 0 5 135
Chinese languages 835 695 0 5 130
Cantonese 245 200 0 0 50
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 80 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 485 410 0 5 75
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 5
Burmese 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Tai languages 45 40 0 0 5
Lao 15 10 0 0 5
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 200 175 0 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 185 160 0 5 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 525 525 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 40 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 460 460 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 170 145 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages 90 75 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 40 35 0 5 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 25 20 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 65 60 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 10
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 910 760 5 145 0
English and French 125 35 0 90 0
English and non-official language 730 700 0 25 0
French and non-official language 45 20 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0

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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.

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