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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, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
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 509,950 485,745 135 23,450 625
Single responses 508,830 485,065 130 23,015 620
English 497,565 476,760 25 20,715 65
French 2,480 595 95 1,785 0
Non-official languages 8,790 7,710 15 515 550
Aboriginal languages 2,715 2,520 0 40 160
Algonquian languages 2,050 1,870 0 35 145
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 5 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 2,030 1,855 0 35 145
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 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 5 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 665 645 0 5 10
Inuktitut 640 625 0 5 15
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 630 505 5 100 25
Italian 70 50 0 20 0
Portuguese 90 70 0 20 0
Romanian 40 25 0 15 5
Spanish 425 355 5 45 25
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 685 570 0 115 0
Dutch 95 80 0 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 360 290 0 70 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 145 130 0 15 0
Danish 40 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 35 35 0 5 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 5 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 65 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 515 445 0 45 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 60 55 0 5 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 100 90 0 10 0
Russian 205 180 5 15 15
Serbian 25 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 5
Slovak 15 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 40 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 5
Albanian 100 80 0 0 20
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 60 0 15 0
Estonian 20 5 0 10 0
Finnish 20 15 0 5 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages 50 45 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 5
Turkish 30 30 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 660 540 0 60 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 5
Oromo 15 15 0 5 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 630 525 0 50 50
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 590 495 0 50 45
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 950 865 0 35 50
Indo-Aryan languages 790 725 0 25 40
Bengali 200 190 0 0 5
Gujarati 40 40 0 0 0
Hindi 95 95 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 35 30 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 110 100 0 5 5
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0
Urdu 195 180 0 15 5
Nepali 50 40 0 5 10
Iranian languages 150 130 0 10 10
Kurdish 15 10 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 110 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 210 200 0 5 0
Kannada 15 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 60 0 5 5
Tamil 85 80 0 5 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 5 5
Korean 70 60 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,245 1,095 0 35 115
Chinese languages 1,230 1,080 0 35 115
Cantonese 160 120 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 175 155 0 10 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 870 780 0 20 75
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 35 30 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 325 320 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 260 255 0 5 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 5 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 145 105 5 25 5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 5 0
Bantu languages 80 50 5 20 10
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 5 0
Swahili 30 15 5 10 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 60 60 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 140 60 0 5 70
American Sign Language 55 35 0 0 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 85 30 0 5 55
Other languages 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,120 680 5 435 5
English and French 470 110 5 355 0
English and non-official language 585 535 0 45 10
French and non-official language 45 25 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011033.

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