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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 Cambridge
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 110,905 103,205 50 5,765 1,895
Single responses 109,240 101,850 40 5,470 1,880
English 88,315 84,825 5 3,445 40
French 1,460 130 30 1,300 0
Non-official languages 19,475 16,895 10 725 1,845
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 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 5 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 8,225 6,865 5 250 1,100
Italian 765 675 0 60 30
Portuguese 6,075 5,005 5 105 970
Romanian 255 210 0 35 15
Spanish 1,120 970 0 60 85
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,620 1,525 0 95 0
Dutch 565 535 0 30 0
Flemish 15 15 0 5 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 965 905 0 60 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,755 1,620 0 90 50
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 225 210 0 15 5
Czech 125 110 0 10 0
Macedonian 70 65 0 0 0
Polish 780 715 0 35 25
Russian 115 100 0 10 5
Serbian 125 110 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 80 75 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 165 145 0 5 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 5 0
Greek 175 165 0 5 5
Armenian 185 160 0 20 10
Albanian 35 30 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 455 425 0 20 5
Estonian 25 25 0 5 0
Finnish 40 35 0 5 0
Hungarian 385 365 0 10 5
Turkic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 625 535 0 55 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 595 505 0 55 35
Amharic 30 30 0 0 0
Arabic 500 410 0 50 35
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 0
Maltese 30 35 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,795 3,285 0 120 395
Indo-Aryan languages 3,110 2,690 0 90 330
Bengali 45 40 0 5 0
Gujarati 840 700 0 20 120
Hindi 175 165 0 5 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,130 960 5 35 140
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 870 785 0 25 60
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 675 585 0 30 55
Kurdish 25 25 0 0 5
Pashto 500 440 0 15 45
Persian (Farsi) 145 125 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 190 165 0 10 15
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 50 50 0 5 5
Tamil 115 95 0 10 10
Telugu 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 65 55 0 0 10
Korean 115 115 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 750 615 0 25 105
Chinese languages 745 610 0 30 105
Cantonese 220 175 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 10 0 0 5
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 145 120 0 5 20
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 360 305 0 10 50
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 230 200 0 10 25
Lao 190 165 0 5 15
Thai 40 30 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 615 535 5 10 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 605 525 5 10 65
Malayo-Polynesian languages 440 430 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 375 370 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 50 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 25 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 20 20 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,670 1,360 10 295 10
English and French 220 35 5 180 0
English and non-official language 1,375 1,295 5 70 5
French and non-official language 40 25 0 10 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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