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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 Squamish-Lillooet^{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	38,080	33,330	40	4,430	285
Single responses	37,535	32,940	35	4,275	285
English	31,635	28,825	5	2,800	0
French	1,330	110	30	1,185	0
Non-official languages	4,575	4,000	5	290	280
Aboriginal languages	250	245	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	10	10	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	5	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	5	5	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	5	5	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	225	225	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	5	5	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	5	5	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0	0	0
Lillooet	175	175	0	5	0
Okanagan	0	0	0	0	0
Squamish	5	5	0	0	0
Straits	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	35	30	0	0	0
Siouan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Dakota	0	5	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.	10	15	0	0	0
Romance languages	440	365	0	60	15
Italian	115	95	0	15	0
Portuguese	65	50	0	10	0
Romanian	35	25	0	15	5
Spanish	225	195	0	25	5
Catalan	5	5	0	0	5
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	885	785	0	105	5
Dutch	125	105	0	20	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	5	5	0	0	0
German	595	525	0	75	5
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	130	120	0	10	0
Danish	50	45	0	5	0
Icelandic	5	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	30	25	0	0	0
Swedish	50	45	0	5	0
Afrikaans	30	30	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	5	0	5	0
Gaelic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Welsh	5	5	0	5	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	395	365	0	35	5
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	5	5	0	0	0
Bulgarian	10	10	0	0	0
Croatian	10	10	0	0	0
Czech	125	115	0	5	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	90	85	0	10	0
Russian	55	50	0	0	0
Serbian	10	10	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	5	0	0	0	0
Slovak	45	35	0	10	5
Slovenian	15	10	0	5	0
Ukrainian	35	40	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Latvian	10	10	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	25	25	0	5	0
Armenian	0	5	0	0	0
Albanian	5	5	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	95	80	0	10	0
Estonian	5	10	0	0	0
Finnish	25	25	0	0	0
Hungarian	60	55	0	5	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	30	25	0	5	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	30	25	0	0	0
Amharic	5	0	0	0	0
Arabic	15	15	0	5	0
Hebrew	5	5	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	1,245	1,000	0	25	220
Indo-Aryan languages	1,235	985	0	20	220
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	5	0	0	0
Hindi	60	60	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	1,145	910	0	25	215
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	15	10	0	0	5
Nepali	5	5	0	0	0
Iranian languages	15	10	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	10	15	0	5	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	10	10	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	5	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	365	325	0	25	20
Korean	75	70	0	5	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	185	165	0	10	10
Chinese languages	185	160	0	15	5
Cantonese	80	70	0	5	5
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	30	25	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	65	60	0	5	5
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	5	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	20	20	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	20	20	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	15	15	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	10	10	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	475	465	0	5	5
Bisayan languages	40	40	0	0	0
Ilocano	10	10	0	0	0
Malay	10	15	0	0	0
Pampango	5	5	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	385	380	0	5	5
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.	15	10	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	20	15	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	20	20	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	5	5	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	15	10	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	0	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	5	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	5	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.	5	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	550	390	0	150	0
English and French	120	10	0	105	0
English and non-official language	370	340	5	25	0
French and non-official language	50	30	0	15	0
English, French and non-official language	10	5	0	10	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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