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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, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
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 509,950 485,740 130 23,450 630
Single responses 508,830 485,065 130 23,020 620
English 497,560 476,755 25 20,715 65
French 2,475 595 90 1,785 0
Non-official languages 8,790 7,710 15 510 550
Aboriginal languages 2,715 2,515 5 40 155
Algonquian languages 2,050 1,865 5 35 145
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 2,035 1,850 5 30 145
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 660 650 0 5 10
Inuktitut 640 625 0 0 10
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 630 505 0 100 25
Italian 70 55 0 20 0
Portuguese 95 75 0 20 0
Romanian 40 25 0 15 0
Spanish 420 355 0 45 20
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 685 575 0 110 0
Dutch 95 75 0 15 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 360 295 0 75 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 145 130 0 10 0
Danish 40 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 35 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 65 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 515 445 0 40 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 55 0 5 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 5
Czech 25 20 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 100 85 0 10 0
Russian 205 175 0 10 15
Serbian 20 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 5 0 5 5
Slovak 10 10 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 40 0 10 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 5 20
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 60 0 15 0
Estonian 20 5 0 10 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages 50 40 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 655 545 0 60 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Oromo 20 15 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 635 525 0 55 50
Amharic 10 10 0 5 0
Arabic 590 495 0 50 45
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 955 865 0 35 50
Indo-Aryan languages 785 725 5 25 40
Bengali 195 190 0 0 10
Gujarati 40 40 0 0 0
Hindi 95 95 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 35 30 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 100 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0 0
Urdu 200 180 0 10 0
Nepali 55 40 0 0 15
Iranian languages 150 130 0 10 5
Kurdish 10 15 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 125 105 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 210 200 0 5 5
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 65 60 0 0 5
Tamil 80 80 0 5 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 5 0
Korean 70 60 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,245 1,100 0 35 120
Chinese languages 1,230 1,080 0 35 120
Cantonese 160 120 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 175 155 0 10 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 870 780 0 15 80
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 325 320 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 260 260 0 0 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 145 105 5 25 10
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 5 0
Bantu languages 85 50 5 25 5
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 30 15 0 5 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 60 60 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 140 60 0 5 70
American Sign Language 50 35 0 0 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 90 30 0 0 60
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,120 675 0 435 5
English and French 465 110 0 355 0
English and non-official language 585 535 0 45 10
French and non-official language 40 25 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011055.

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