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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 Portage--Lisgar
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 89,740 81,275 115 6,525 1,830
Single responses 88,380 80,135 110 6,325 1,815
English 59,415 56,605 5 2,785 25
French 3,740 315 90 3,335 0
Non-official languages 25,220 23,210 15 205 1,795
Aboriginal languages 535 530 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 500 495 0 5 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 40 35 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 35 0 5 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 455 455 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 5 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 35 35 0 0 0
Dakota 30 30 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 5 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 300 255 0 25 25
Italian 30 25 0 0 0
Portuguese 35 30 0 5 5
Romanian 20 15 0 0 5
Spanish 220 185 0 15 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 22,095 20,460 15 145 1,475
Dutch 425 410 0 10 0
Flemish 100 90 0 15 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 21,460 19,860 15 120 1,475
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 45 0 5 0
Danish 15 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 25 25 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 50 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 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 1,485 1,225 0 15 245
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 25 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 65 65 0 5 0
Russian 1,035 790 0 10 240
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 305 295 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 30 25 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 95 85 0 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 90 85 0 0 5
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 70 65 0 5 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 155 135 0 5 15
Indo-Aryan languages 130 115 0 0 15
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 55 0 0 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0 0
Korean 35 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 95 75 0 0 15
Chinese languages 95 80 0 5 15
Cantonese 35 30 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 30 25 0 0 5
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 245 240 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 215 210 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 5
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 40 40 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,360 1,140 5 200 10
English and French 220 55 0 160 0
English and non-official language 1,005 970 0 20 10
French and non-official language 125 110 5 5 5
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 0

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

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