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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 Penticton, CY^{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	32,355	30,100	10	2,040	200
Single responses	31,995	29,825	15	1,960	200
English	27,805	26,490	0	1,310	0
French	570	75	10	485	0
Non-official languages	3,620	3,255	0	165	200
Aboriginal languages	20	20	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	15	15	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	10	10	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	5	10	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	5	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	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	5	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	10	10	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.	5	5	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	5	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	525	455	0	40	30
Italian	135	125	0	10	5
Portuguese	250	215	0	15	25
Romanian	10	10	0	5	0
Spanish	130	115	0	15	5
Catalan	5	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	1,195	1,120	0	75	5
Dutch	220	200	0	20	0
Flemish	10	5	0	5	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	865	805	0	55	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	75	80	0	0	0
Danish	35	40	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	10	0	0	0
Swedish	25	25	0	0	0
Afrikaans	25	25	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	15	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Welsh	5	10	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	455	430	0	25	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	40	40	0	0	0
Czech	50	50	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	80	70	0	5	0
Russian	85	80	0	5	0
Serbian	15	10	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	25	20	0	0	0
Slovenian	15	15	0	0	0
Ukrainian	140	135	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Latvian	10	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0	0	0
Greek	50	45	0	5	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	10	10	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	160	160	0	0	5
Estonian	5	0	0	0	0
Finnish	30	30	0	0	0
Hungarian	125	125	0	0	0
Turkic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	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	25	20	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	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	20	20	0	5	0
Amharic	5	0	0	0	0
Arabic	10	10	0	5	0
Hebrew	0	5	0	0	0
Maltese	0	5	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.	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	695	570	0	10	115
Indo-Aryan languages	675	550	0	10	115
Bengali	5	5	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	15	20	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	640	515	0	10	115
Sindhi	5	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	5	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	10	15	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	10	10	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	35	30	0	0	0
Korean	35	25	0	0	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	150	125	0	5	25
Chinese languages	150	120	0	0	30
Cantonese	40	30	0	0	10
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	20	20	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	80	70	0	0	10
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	30	20	0	0	5
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	25	25	0	0	5
Austro-Asiatic languages	65	60	0	5	5
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	5	0	0	0
Vietnamese	70	60	0	5	5
Malayo-Polynesian languages	130	125	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	5	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	115	110	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	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	5	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	5	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	5	0	0	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	5	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	10	5	0	0	5
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0	0	5
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	365	280	0	80	0
English and French	90	20	0	60	0
English and non-official language	255	250	0	5	0
French and non-official language	10	5	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	10	5	0	5	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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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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