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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), 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 detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in M1T
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 34,125 28,695 45 1,750 3,630
Single responses 32,905 27,665 40 1,580 3,620
English 11,945 11,290 0 615 40
French 290 20 10 250 0
Non-official languages 20,675 16,355 25 710 3,580
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 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 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,035 860 0 75 100
Italian 430 360 0 15 50
Portuguese 80 70 0 5 10
Romanian 150 110 0 25 10
Spanish 375 320 0 25 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 235 220 0 15 0
Dutch 25 25 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 185 175 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 545 490 0 30 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 40 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 145 135 0 5 10
Polish 95 85 0 5 5
Russian 85 75 0 10 5
Serbian 45 40 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 40 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 655 600 0 35 20
Armenian 790 595 0 100 95
Albanian 35 30 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 145 145 0 0 0
Estonian 25 25 0 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0 0
Hungarian 85 80 0 5 5
Turkic languages 80 65 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 10 0 0 5 0
Turkish 70 60 0 0 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 770 630 0 85 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 95 85 0 10 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 85 70 0 10 0
Semitic languages 675 545 5 70 55
Amharic 20 15 0 0 0
Arabic 615 495 0 70 55
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,600 2,325 5 80 190
Indo-Aryan languages 1,855 1,710 0 55 90
Bengali 120 115 0 0 0
Gujarati 245 220 0 10 15
Hindi 190 175 0 10 5
Konkani 30 30 0 0 0
Marathi 45 35 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 80 0 0 10
Sindhi 60 55 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 150 140 0 5 0
Urdu 910 845 0 25 35
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 730 605 0 25 100
Kurdish 25 25 0 0 5
Pashto 85 60 0 5 20
Persian (Farsi) 615 520 0 20 75
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 1,595 1,435 0 45 115
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 75 70 0 5 5
Tamil 1,380 1,235 0 35 105
Telugu 115 110 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 60 60 0 0 0
Korean 215 175 0 0 40
Sino-Tibetan languages 10,495 7,430 0 180 2,890
Chinese languages 10,465 7,410 0 180 2,880
Cantonese 2,990 1,895 0 60 1,040
Chaochow (Teochow) 25 15 0 0 10
Fukien 60 35 0 0 20
Hakka 70 50 0 5 20
Mandarin 3,175 2,360 0 35 780
Shanghainese 50 30 0 0 20
Taiwanese 25 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 4,065 3,005 0 75 990
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0 5
Burmese 15 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 110 90 0 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 110 90 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,100 1,070 0 10 15
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 85 85 0 5 0
Malay 40 35 0 0 5
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 915 890 0 10 10
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 100 80 10 5 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 60 35 15 5 0
Lingala 15 0 10 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 10 0 0 0
Swahili 25 25 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 50 15 0 40 0
Non-verbal languages 0 5 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 1,220 1,035 5 175 5
English and French 65 5 0 60 0
English and non-official language 1,080 1,005 0 65 5
French and non-official language 45 15 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011032.


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