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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 Halifax West / Halifax-Ouest
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 86,630 74,720 65 11,250 595
Single responses 85,440 73,975 60 10,820 595
English 73,975 66,035 5 7,925 20
French 2,230 170 40 2,015 0
Non-official languages 9,240 7,770 15 875 575
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 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 675 515 0 125 35
Italian 225 175 0 40 5
Portuguese 50 40 0 10 0
Romanian 55 35 0 20 5
Spanish 345 260 0 60 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 450 360 0 90 0
Dutch 125 100 0 25 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 250 200 0 50 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 45 40 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 5 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 820 705 0 80 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 35 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 60 60 0 5 0
Czech 30 20 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 210 180 0 25 0
Russian 285 250 0 20 10
Serbian 35 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 50 40 0 5 5
Slovak 35 30 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 35 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 275 235 0 25 10
Armenian 15 5 0 5 0
Albanian 175 145 0 15 15
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 65 50 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 40 0 5 0
Turkic languages 110 100 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 85 75 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,725 2,180 5 380 150
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Oromo 20 15 0 0 5
Somali 15 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,690 2,160 10 375 150
Amharic 40 35 0 0 0
Arabic 2,600 2,075 5 375 145
Hebrew 25 20 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,435 1,245 0 50 140
Indo-Aryan languages 860 720 0 20 115
Bengali 110 95 0 5 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0 0
Hindi 165 155 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 120 110 0 5 10
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 185 175 0 5 0
Nepali 200 105 5 0 95
Iranian languages 565 515 0 25 25
Kurdish 60 50 0 5 0
Pashto 40 40 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 465 425 0 25 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 160 160 0 5 5
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 0
Tamil 65 65 0 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 5 0
Korean 380 320 0 15 45
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,100 955 0 25 115
Chinese languages 1,100 955 0 25 115
Cantonese 130 105 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 290 260 0 10 25
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 665 575 0 20 70
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 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 15 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 165 145 0 10 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 165 150 0 10 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 405 395 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 350 345 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 135 110 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 5 0
Bantu languages 60 45 0 10 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 15 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 10 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 20 15 0 5 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 25 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,180 740 10 435 5
English and French 365 60 0 300 0
English and non-official language 735 665 0 70 0
French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 25 0

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

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