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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 T3J
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 65,465 58,225 95 2,440 4,705
Single responses 62,120 55,150 90 2,200 4,680
English 24,010 23,115 0 860 35
French 670 55 40 575 5
Non-official languages 37,435 31,985 45 765 4,645
Aboriginal languages 55 55 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 20 20 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 0 5 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 10 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 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,900 1,660 15 90 130
Italian 75 65 0 5 0
Portuguese 110 95 0 5 10
Romanian 20 15 0 5 0
Spanish 1,695 1,490 20 70 120
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 250 0 15 0
Dutch 45 40 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 205 195 0 5 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 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 330 300 0 10 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 55 0 5 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 120 115 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0 5
Serbian 10 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 95 90 0 5 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 95 80 0 5 5
Turkic languages 30 20 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 15 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,205 1,080 5 60 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 195 170 5 5 15
Oromo 80 75 0 0 5
Somali 115 100 0 10 5
Semitic languages 1,010 905 0 45 50
Amharic 300 295 0 5 5
Arabic 620 540 5 40 40
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 45 5 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 26,015 21,695 15 395 3,910
Indo-Aryan languages 24,160 20,160 10 365 3,615
Bengali 880 775 0 45 60
Gujarati 755 680 0 15 55
Hindi 1,180 1,080 0 25 75
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15,825 12,640 5 180 3,000
Sindhi 345 325 0 10 10
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 70 0 0 0
Urdu 4,900 4,425 0 85 395
Nepali 180 150 0 0 25
Iranian languages 1,635 1,345 5 25 265
Kurdish 355 275 0 5 75
Pashto 375 315 0 5 50
Persian (Farsi) 910 750 0 20 140
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 225 190 0 5 30
Dravidian languages 315 285 0 10 20
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 135 0 0 20
Tamil 145 130 0 10 0
Telugu 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 5 0
Korean 25 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,355 1,065 0 10 270
Chinese languages 1,310 1,030 0 15 270
Cantonese 585 450 0 5 130
Chaochow (Teochow) 20 10 0 0 10
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 65 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 615 485 0 5 125
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 25 20 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Tai languages 35 35 0 5 0
Lao 20 15 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,185 1,005 0 25 155
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 30 0 5 0
Vietnamese 1,150 970 0 25 150
Malayo-Polynesian languages 3,950 3,840 0 60 50
Bisayan languages 200 200 0 0 5
Ilocano 190 185 0 0 5
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 15 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 3,480 3,380 0 60 45
Bikol 10 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 405 360 0 40 5
Akan (Twi) 80 80 0 0 0
Bantu languages 140 115 0 25 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 5
Shona 30 25 0 0 0
Swahili 60 45 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 5 0
Edo 5 10 0 0 0
Igbo 50 50 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 125 105 0 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 120 115 0 0 0
Creoles 45 15 0 30 5
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 10
Other languages 15 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,350 3,070 10 240 25
English and French 110 25 0 85 0
English and non-official language 3,100 2,995 5 80 25
French and non-official language 85 40 5 40 5
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 0

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


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