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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 Yellowknife, CY
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 18,995 16,065 40 2,820 70
Single responses 18,720 15,865 40 2,750 65
English 15,120 13,285 0 1,835 5
French 810 45 40 725 0
Non-official languages 2,790 2,535 5 190 65
Aboriginal languages 755 745 0 15 5
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 20 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 5 5 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 540 530 0 5 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 115 115 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 260 255 0 0 0
Gwich'in 15 10 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 70 70 0 0 0
South Slavey 20 25 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 50 50 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 190 180 0 5 5
Inuktitut 115 110 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun 20 20 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 45 45 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 140 115 0 20 0
Italian 35 30 0 5 5
Portuguese 15 15 0 5 0
Romanian 15 10 0 0 0
Spanish 70 60 0 10 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 195 155 0 35 0
Dutch 40 35 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 135 110 0 30 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 10 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 160 145 0 10 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 75 70 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 20 20 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 160 125 5 30 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Oromo 0 0 0 5 0
Somali 35 35 0 0 0
Semitic languages 115 85 0 25 5
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 90 65 0 25 10
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 150 135 0 15 0
Indo-Aryan languages 130 120 0 10 0
Bengali 30 30 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 10 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 5 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 170 160 0 5 10
Chinese languages 170 155 0 5 5
Cantonese 75 70 0 0 0
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. 75 70 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 150 130 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 130 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 565 550 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 60 55 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 35 0 0 5
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 455 445 0 10 5
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 85 75 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 80 70 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 45 40 0 5 0
Swahili 5 0 0 5 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 35 15 0 30 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 270 200 0 70 0
English and French 65 5 0 55 0
English and non-official language 195 185 0 15 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0

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

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