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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 Bow River
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 103,265 98,900 80 2,650 1,645
Single responses 101,975 97,750 70 2,525 1,630
English 80,565 79,110 0 1,420 30
French 1,020 175 40 805 0
Non-official languages 20,390 18,460 30 300 1,600
Aboriginal languages 795 795 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 775 770 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 730 730 0 0 0
Cree languages 40 40 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 35 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 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 15 15 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 10 15 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 5 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 5 5 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 1,015 865 0 55 90
Italian 160 145 0 10 0
Portuguese 145 120 0 10 10
Romanian 65 45 0 15 5
Spanish 650 555 0 20 75
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 11,005 10,005 5 65 930
Dutch 810 795 0 10 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 9,905 8,930 5 45 930
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 165 160 0 0 0
Danish 120 115 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 770 725 0 25 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 120 115 0 0 0
Czech 50 40 0 0 5
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 165 160 0 5 5
Russian 85 75 0 5 5
Serbian 20 20 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 50 45 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 190 185 5 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 200 185 0 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 175 165 0 5 0
Turkic languages 25 30 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 940 835 10 35 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 370 325 5 5 35
Oromo 220 200 0 5 25
Somali 150 125 5 5 10
Semitic languages 560 510 0 25 20
Amharic 85 85 0 0 5
Arabic 455 410 5 25 20
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,915 1,695 0 30 195
Indo-Aryan languages 1,820 1,610 0 25 185
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 60 60 0 5 0
Hindi 155 150 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,310 1,140 0 15 155
Sindhi 30 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 255 225 0 5 20
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 85 75 0 5 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 60 50 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 115 115 0 0 0
Korean 135 125 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 700 555 0 0 140
Chinese languages 680 540 0 5 140
Cantonese 130 115 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 90 0 5 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 440 335 0 0 105
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 80 75 0 0 5
Lao 60 50 0 0 5
Thai 25 20 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 910 780 0 15 120
Khmer (Cambodian) 140 120 0 5 15
Vietnamese 770 660 0 10 105
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,330 1,310 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 85 90 0 0 0
Ilocano 50 50 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,145 1,135 0 5 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 160 100 15 40 10
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 85 35 15 25 5
Lingala 5 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 35 10 10 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 35 20 5 10 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 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. 60 40 5 10 5
African languages, n.i.e. 210 200 0 0 5
Creoles 20 10 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,290 1,150 10 125 10
English and French 135 50 0 85 0
English and non-official language 1,060 1,035 5 10 10
French and non-official language 80 60 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 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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