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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada and Forward Sortation Areas, 2011 Census ©

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in M1J
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 35,945 33,615 585 330 1,420 750 2.1
Single responses 32,305 30,120 485 290 1,420 625 1.9
English 21,065 20,915 155 0 0 155 0.7
French 305 35 275 0 0 275 90.2
Non-official languages 10,930 9,170 55 290 1,415 200 1.8
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 675 520 0 30 125 20 3.0
Italian 145 110 0 0 35 0 0.0
Portuguese 95 70 5 0 20 0 0.0
Romanian 55 30 0 15 5 10 18.2
Spanish 375 305 0 15 60 10 2.7
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 40 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 640 535 0 10 100 5 0.8
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Czech 75 55 5 0 20 5 6.7
Macedonian 220 200 0 0 25 0 0.0
Polish 140 125 0 5 5 0 0.0
Russian 35 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Serbian 60 50 0 0 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovak 65 30 0 0 40 0 0.0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 235 205 0 5 25 0 0.0
Armenian 20 15 0 0 5 5 25.0
Albanian 140 115 0 10 15 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 260 135 0 5 115 0 0.0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 250 125 0 5 115 0 0.0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 5 5 25.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 360 295 0 15 50 10 2.8
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 65 60 0 5 10 0 0.0
Oromo 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 55 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Semitic languages 295 235 5 15 45 10 3.4
Amharic 90 80 5 5 5 5 5.6
Arabic 130 90 0 10 25 5 3.8
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tigrigna 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 40 25 0 0 10 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 3,120 2,660 0 60 400 30 1.0
Indo-Aryan languages 2,345 2,040 0 45 255 25 1.1
Bengali 600 540 0 15 40 5 0.8
Gujarati 335 275 0 5 60 5 1.5
Hindi 160 140 0 5 15 5 3.1
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 80 0 0 15 0 0.0
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 75 70 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 1,030 895 0 20 115 10 1.0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 745 595 0 15 130 10 1.3
Kurdish 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 140 105 0 0 30 5 3.6
Persian (Farsi) 595 480 0 10 105 5 0.8
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 3,195 2,760 0 65 375 30 0.9
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Malayalam 145 135 0 0 15 0 0.0
Tamil 2,995 2,580 0 60 355 30 1.0
Telugu 50 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 55 45 0 5 10 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 515 405 0 5 105 5 1.0
Chinese languages 505 400 0 0 105 0 0.0
Cantonese 200 155 0 5 50 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 125 110 0 0 20 0 0.0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 135 0 0 35 0 0.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 40 0 0 10 5 10.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vietnamese 50 40 5 0 10 0 0.0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,195 1,145 0 5 45 5 0.4
Bisayan languages 30 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,095 1,045 0 5 45 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages 130 105 10 10 5 15 11.5
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 75 55 10 5 5 10 13.3
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0 5 100.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swahili 45 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 235 105 35 75 10 75 31.9
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 3,640 3,500 100 45 0 120 3.3
English and French 60 20 20 25 0 30 50.0
English and non-official language 3,440 3,430 5 0 0 5 0.1
French and non-official language 70 20 50 0 0 50 71.4
English, French and non-official language 70 30 20 25 0 35 50.0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011038.


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