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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 BrantFootnote 1
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 134,450 128,195 35 5,620 600
Single responses 133,290 127,250 30 5,415 595
English 119,400 115,540 0 3,820 40
French 1,365 210 20 1,140 0
Non-official languages 12,520 11,500 10 455 555
Aboriginal languages 370 360 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 25 30 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 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 15 15 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 335 325 0 5 0
Mohawk 140 135 0 5 0
Cayuga 165 160 0 0 0
Oneida 10 10 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,705 2,395 5 150 160
Italian 1,345 1,210 5 75 60
Portuguese 760 700 0 25 35
Romanian 140 110 0 30 10
Spanish 450 365 0 25 60
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 2,115 2,030 5 75 10
Dutch 1,095 1,065 0 30 0
Flemish 55 55 0 5 0
Frisian 40 40 0 0 0
German 850 805 0 40 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 40 35 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 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 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,685 2,515 0 85 80
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 110 100 0 0 5
Czech 45 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 1,800 1,680 0 50 70
Russian 85 75 0 5 0
Serbian 115 105 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 90 80 0 5 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 5 0
Ukrainian 355 350 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 25 0 0 0
Greek 165 145 0 15 5
Armenian 30 25 0 5 5
Albanian 35 35 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 755 735 0 15 10
Estonian 20 20 0 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 715 690 0 15 10
Turkic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 350 305 0 25 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0 5
Semitic languages 330 290 0 25 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 265 230 0 25 15
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 55 60 0 0 5
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,300 1,180 5 30 90
Indo-Aryan languages 1,215 1,100 0 30 85
Bengali 20 20 0 0 0
Gujarati 200 180 0 10 15
Hindi 105 105 0 5 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 600 520 5 15 60
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 250 235 0 5 10
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 70 65 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 70 65 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 95 90 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 20 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 5
Telugu 45 45 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 5
Korean 160 145 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 520 450 0 15 60
Chinese languages 520 445 0 15 60
Cantonese 120 100 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 80 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 295 260 0 10 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 50 50 0 0 0
Lao 50 50 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 540 460 0 10 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0 5
Vietnamese 515 435 0 10 65
Malayo-Polynesian languages 345 335 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 300 295 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 45 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 25 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 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. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 80 70 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,160 945 0 205 5
English and French 210 60 0 145 0
English and non-official language 885 845 0 30 5
French and non-official language 50 35 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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