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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 Sherbrooke
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 106,030 810 59,570 44,900 745
Single responses 104,655 775 59,175 43,965 735
English 2,835 430 80 2,325 5
French 94,195 10 55,365 38,810 15
Non-official languages 7,620 335 3,730 2,830 725
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,770 50 1,615 915 200
Italian 95 0 40 60 0
Portuguese 140 0 55 80 5
Romanian 100 5 35 60 0
Spanish 2,430 45 1,490 700 190
Catalan 10 0 5 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 110 20 10 80 0
Dutch 25 5 0 20 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 70 15 5 50 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 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 1,225 15 620 520 65
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 135 5 95 35 5
Bulgarian 15 0 5 10 0
Croatian 50 0 20 30 5
Czech 30 0 5 20 5
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 85 5 25 55 0
Russian 100 5 45 45 5
Serbian 410 0 210 160 35
Serbo-Croatian 365 0 200 140 15
Slovak 10 0 0 10 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 0 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 5 5
Greek 45 0 0 40 5
Armenian 10 0 5 10 0
Albanian 10 0 5 5 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 30 5 10 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 5 10 15 0
Turkic languages 35 0 20 10 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 15 10 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,210 30 560 495 130
Berber languages (Kabyle) 50 5 30 15 0
Cushitic languages 65 0 40 25 0
Oromo 55 0 35 20 0
Somali 10 0 5 5 0
Semitic languages 1,065 25 470 440 125
Amharic 5 0 0 5 0
Arabic 1,050 25 465 435 120
Hebrew 5 0 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 30 0 15 15 5
Indo-Iranian languages 975 120 295 295 270
Indo-Aryan languages 245 40 30 70 100
Bengali 5 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 215 35 25 60 95
Iranian languages 730 75 265 225 165
Kurdish 20 0 15 5 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 710 75 250 215 165
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 0 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 5 5 10 0
Korean 20 5 5 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 185 55 35 70 30
Chinese languages 180 55 35 70 25
Cantonese 20 5 0 10 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 10 10 15 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 35 20 45 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Tai languages 10 0 0 10 0
Lao 10 0 5 0 0
Thai 10 0 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 175 5 80 75 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 5 25 15 5
Vietnamese 125 5 50 65 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 50 5 25 25 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10 0 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 25 0 20 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 595 5 375 200 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 465 5 310 140 10
Lingala 45 0 35 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 150 0 95 55 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 70 5 35 30 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 135 0 105 25 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 70 0 45 25 5
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 40 0 15 25 0
Bamanankan 20 0 10 10 0
Ewe 20 0 15 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 0 25 25 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 0 5 15 0
Creoles 90 0 50 35 5
Non-verbal languages 10 0 10 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 10 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,380 35 400 935 5
English and French 755 10 70 675 0
English and non-official language 80 25 5 50 0
French and non-official language 480 0 310 165 10
English, French and non-official language 60 0 10 50 0

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

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