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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 Kitchener Centre / Kitchener-Centre
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 101,060 92,430 45 6,850 1,735
Single responses 99,490 91,160 40 6,570 1,720
English 73,685 69,460 0 4,195 30
French 1,440 160 25 1,260 0
Non-official languages 24,360 21,545 15 1,110 1,690
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 5,085 4,300 5 355 420
Italian 290 260 0 30 0
Portuguese 1,275 1,065 5 50 160
Romanian 1,475 1,175 0 185 110
Spanish 2,045 1,805 0 95 150
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,675 3,515 0 140 20
Dutch 305 285 0 20 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 3,285 3,155 5 110 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 35 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 5,500 4,910 5 260 320
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 215 200 0 5 10
Bulgarian 45 35 0 5 0
Croatian 790 735 0 15 35
Czech 190 175 0 10 0
Macedonian 35 30 0 0 5
Polish 1,210 1,105 0 50 60
Russian 340 295 0 30 15
Serbian 1,900 1,625 0 105 170
Serbo-Croatian 200 170 0 10 20
Slovak 145 135 0 5 5
Slovenian 100 95 0 5 0
Ukrainian 250 225 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 90 80 0 5 0
Baltic languages 65 55 0 10 0
Latvian 30 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 30 30 0 0 0
Greek 410 365 0 15 30
Armenian 30 25 0 5 0
Albanian 285 250 0 10 30
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 500 465 0 20 10
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 435 405 5 15 10
Turkic languages 170 155 0 5 15
Azerbaijani 5 10 0 0 0
Turkish 160 145 0 5 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,070 1,770 0 85 210
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 350 305 0 5 40
Oromo 55 45 0 0 10
Somali 295 260 0 5 30
Semitic languages 1,705 1,455 5 80 170
Amharic 255 230 0 10 15
Arabic 1,050 880 0 60 110
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 285 250 0 5 30
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 90 70 0 0 20
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,530 2,245 0 65 220
Indo-Aryan languages 1,450 1,310 0 45 95
Bengali 210 185 0 10 10
Gujarati 370 320 0 10 40
Hindi 145 135 0 5 5
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 275 0 10 15
Sindhi 30 30 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 340 315 0 10 25
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 1,020 880 0 25 120
Kurdish 160 135 0 5 20
Pashto 75 60 0 0 15
Persian (Farsi) 790 685 0 20 90
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 195 175 0 10 15
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 45 40 0 0 5
Tamil 90 80 0 5 5
Telugu 40 40 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 65 55 0 5 0
Korean 190 165 0 10 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,540 1,330 0 50 165
Chinese languages 1,435 1,235 0 50 155
Cantonese 200 160 0 15 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 415 355 0 10 45
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 790 690 0 25 80
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 45 50 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 60 50 0 0 10
Tai languages 265 250 0 5 15
Lao 245 225 0 0 15
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 800 640 0 20 145
Khmer (Cambodian) 75 60 0 5 10
Vietnamese 730 580 0 15 135
Malayo-Polynesian languages 270 265 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 210 210 0 0 0
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. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 145 125 0 25 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 95 80 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 0 0
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 35 35 0 5 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 10 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 185 180 0 0 5
Creoles 45 35 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 30 15 0 0 15
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 275 235 0 5 30
Multiple responses 1,565 1,270 5 285 15
English and French 220 55 0 165 0
English and non-official language 1,250 1,160 5 70 10
French and non-official language 65 45 0 20 5
English, French and non-official language 40 10 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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