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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 Whitehorse, CY
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 23,035 19,550 75 3,325 90
Single responses 22,725 19,360 70 3,205 90
English 19,505 17,365 5 2,130 0
French 1,015 45 65 905 0
Non-official languages 2,210 1,955 5 165 85
Aboriginal languages 180 175 0 0 5
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 5 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 120 115 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 20 25 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) 10 5 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 40 40 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 30 25 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 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. 5 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 25 25 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 5 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 5 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 180 150 0 15 10
Italian 25 20 0 5 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 140 115 0 10 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 475 405 0 70 0
Dutch 85 70 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 350 295 0 60 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 30 25 0 5 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 5 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 170 150 0 15 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Czech 25 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 5 0
Russian 40 35 0 5 5
Serbian 5 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 35 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 55 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 5 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 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 155 145 0 10 0
Indo-Aryan languages 135 125 0 10 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 80 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 5 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 255 195 0 5 50
Chinese languages 250 200 0 10 50
Cantonese 90 65 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 30 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 90 0 0 20
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 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 60 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 480 465 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 60 55 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 350 340 0 10 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 20 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 310 190 5 120 0
English and French 100 15 0 90 0
English and non-official language 180 165 0 15 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0

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

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