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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 Hamilton Centre / Hamilton-CentreFootnote 1
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 99,415 89,480 110 7,040 2,785
Single responses 97,495 87,975 100 6,655 2,760
English 73,060 68,795 5 4,225 35
French 1,620 210 50 1,355 0
Non-official languages 22,820 18,970 45 1,075 2,725
Aboriginal languages 65 60 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 5 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 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 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 20 15 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 5 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Mohawk 10 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 10 10 0 0 0
Oneida 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 5 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 6,995 5,595 10 305 1,090
Italian 1,895 1,520 0 80 295
Portuguese 2,810 2,140 5 90 575
Romanian 310 245 0 40 25
Spanish 1,970 1,685 5 95 185
Catalan 5 5 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Germanic languages 955 860 0 90 0
Dutch 235 210 0 20 5
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 620 560 0 60 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 45 0 5 0
Danish 25 20 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 15 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,460 2,965 0 155 335
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 340 315 0 10 15
Czech 655 515 0 10 125
Macedonian 40 35 0 0 0
Polish 1,055 955 0 40 65
Russian 325 255 0 20 45
Serbian 340 285 0 35 20
Serbo-Croatian 45 40 0 5 0
Slovak 140 115 0 0 35
Slovenian 45 45 0 0 5
Ukrainian 400 355 0 25 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 215 190 0 20 5
Latvian 80 70 0 10 0
Lithuanian 140 125 0 10 0
Greek 300 265 0 20 15
Armenian 50 40 0 5 5
Albanian 255 225 0 0 30
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 795 665 0 30 95
Estonian 45 45 0 5 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 730 610 0 25 100
Turkic languages 105 95 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 95 85 0 5 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,590 1,300 5 80 200
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 530 395 0 5 125
Oromo 20 15 0 0 5
Somali 510 380 0 5 125
Semitic languages 1,055 905 5 75 70
Amharic 110 100 0 0 5
Arabic 810 685 5 70 50
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 15 10 0 5 0
Tigrigna 50 40 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,590 1,440 0 50 100
Indo-Aryan languages 1,095 1,005 0 30 60
Bengali 390 345 0 15 30
Gujarati 120 110 0 0 5
Hindi 115 110 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 185 165 0 5 10
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 5
Urdu 235 225 0 5 10
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 480 420 0 20 40
Kurdish 40 30 0 0 10
Pashto 15 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 425 375 0 15 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 125 115 0 0 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0 5
Tamil 75 75 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 50 50 0 5 0
Korean 335 285 0 10 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,530 2,035 5 55 435
Chinese languages 2,280 1,860 5 50 360
Cantonese 445 315 0 15 120
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 10 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 590 520 0 10 65
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,220 1,015 5 25 175
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 30 20 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 220 155 0 0 65
Tai languages 185 135 0 0 45
Lao 115 100 0 0 10
Thai 65 35 0 0 30
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,490 1,200 0 35 255
Khmer (Cambodian) 150 120 0 0 25
Vietnamese 1,345 1,085 5 30 225
Malayo-Polynesian languages 970 945 0 15 15
Bisayan languages 30 35 0 0 0
Ilocano 70 65 0 0 5
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 820 805 0 5 5
Bikol 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 410 305 5 90 15
Akan (Twi) 70 70 0 0 0
Bantu languages 270 170 5 80 10
Lingala 15 0 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 0 5 0
Shona 30 30 0 0 0
Swahili 150 95 5 45 10
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 45 35 5 10 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 20 15 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 115 85 0 20 5
Creoles 150 55 10 80 5
Non-verbal languages 35 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 10 5 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 30 20 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,920 1,505 10 385 25
English and French 270 75 0 200 0
English and non-official language 1,400 1,315 0 70 15
French and non-official language 210 105 10 90 5
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 30 5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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