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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 Oshawa
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 124,590 116,215 120 7,715 540
Single responses 123,300 115,295 115 7,355 535
English 109,070 104,670 0 4,370 25
French 2,745 255 95 2,390 0
Non-official languages 11,490 10,360 20 590 515
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 5 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. 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 5 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 2,845 2,480 10 180 175
Italian 1,230 1,100 5 55 75
Portuguese 685 595 5 40 45
Romanian 135 95 0 35 5
Spanish 795 690 5 50 50
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,510 1,445 0 65 0
Dutch 520 500 0 20 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 870 825 0 45 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 75 70 0 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,250 2,975 0 150 125
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5 0
Croatian 155 145 0 5 5
Czech 50 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 90 80 0 5 5
Polish 1,630 1,490 0 75 65
Russian 250 215 0 20 20
Serbian 140 115 0 10 10
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 75 70 0 5 0
Slovenian 85 85 0 5 0
Ukrainian 740 690 5 25 20
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 50 45 0 5 0
Latvian 30 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0 5
Greek 295 280 0 10 10
Armenian 20 20 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 505 460 5 30 15
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 70 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 400 365 5 20 10
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 445 380 5 45 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages 435 380 5 45 10
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 290 230 5 45 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 5 0
Maltese 115 115 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 955 875 5 30 45
Indo-Aryan languages 630 585 0 15 30
Bengali 60 60 0 5 0
Gujarati 195 175 0 5 10
Hindi 40 40 0 0 0
Konkani 10 5 0 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 75 0 0 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0 0
Urdu 200 190 0 5 10
Nepali 0 0 0 0 5
Iranian languages 320 290 0 5 20
Kurdish 5 10 0 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 300 275 5 10 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 135 115 0 10 10
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 110 90 0 10 10
Telugu 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Korean 115 105 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 575 480 0 15 75
Chinese languages 575 480 0 20 75
Cantonese 145 120 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 100 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 245 0 10 45
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 40 0 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 110 80 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 90 65 0 5 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 435 420 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 5
Malay 10 5 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 390 375 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 50 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 30 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 10 0 0 0
Swahili 15 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 25 20 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 40 30 0 5 15
American Sign Language 25 20 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 5 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,290 920 5 365 0
English and French 355 70 0 280 0
English and non-official language 870 820 0 50 5
French and non-official language 45 25 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 20 0

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

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