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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 Courtenay--Alberni
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 109,200 101,730 35 7,210 225
Single responses 108,400 101,155 35 6,985 220
English 98,350 93,475 0 4,865 10
French 2,035 310 30 1,695 0
Non-official languages 8,015 7,375 0 420 215
Aboriginal languages 280 275 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 5 0
Athapaskan languages 10 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 5 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. 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 200 195 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 185 185 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 10 10 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0
Romance languages 755 665 0 70 20
Italian 365 330 0 30 5
Portuguese 60 50 0 5 5
Romanian 20 15 0 0 0
Spanish 310 260 5 35 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,575 3,360 0 210 5
Dutch 1,010 940 5 75 0
Flemish 20 10 0 0 0
Frisian 10 10 0 5 0
German 1,980 1,865 0 115 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 480 465 0 15 0
Danish 250 245 0 10 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 115 115 0 5 0
Swedish 110 105 0 0 0
Afrikaans 65 60 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Welsh 15 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 975 910 0 55 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 155 150 0 0 5
Czech 90 80 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 195 175 0 20 0
Russian 115 95 0 10 5
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 5 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 60 60 0 0 0
Ukrainian 270 255 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 10 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0 0
Greek 40 35 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 325 300 0 25 0
Estonian 20 20 0 0 0
Finnish 135 135 0 5 0
Hungarian 165 150 0 10 0
Turkic languages 25 15 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 35 25 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 15 5 0 5 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 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 465 420 0 10 40
Indo-Aryan languages 430 385 0 10 35
Bengali 0 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 375 335 0 5 35
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 30 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 120 115 0 0 5
Korean 180 155 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 515 430 0 5 75
Chinese languages 510 430 0 5 75
Cantonese 190 145 0 0 45
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 60 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 215 0 0 25
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 35 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 35 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 170 145 0 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 170 145 0 0 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 365 360 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 10 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 305 300 0 5 0
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 20 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 25 10 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 800 575 0 225 0
English and French 265 85 0 180 0
English and non-official language 480 455 0 25 0
French and non-official language 40 25 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 0

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

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