Archived Content

Information identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please contact us to request a format other than those available.

Archived Content

Content is archived.

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

Data table

Select data categories for this table


This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Yellowknife, 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 18,995 16,065 40 2,820 65
Single responses 18,720 15,865 35 2,750 70
English 15,125 13,285 0 1,835 5
French 810 45 40 725 0
Non-official languages 2,790 2,535 0 190 65
Aboriginal languages 760 740 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 20 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 5 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 540 530 0 5 5
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 115 115 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 260 255 0 5 0
Gwich'in 10 10 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 75 70 0 0 0
South Slavey 25 25 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 55 50 0 0 0
Sarcee 5 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 5 0 0 5 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 5 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 190 180 0 5 5
Inuktitut 115 105 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun 20 25 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 50 45 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 140 115 0 20 5
Italian 40 30 0 5 0
Portuguese 15 10 0 5 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0 0
Spanish 65 65 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 195 155 0 35 0
Dutch 40 35 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 135 105 0 25 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 10 0 10 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 165 150 0 5 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 0 0
Polish 25 20 0 5 0
Russian 35 30 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 75 70 0 5 5
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 20 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 160 125 0 30 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0 5
Semitic languages 115 85 0 25 10
Amharic 10 15 0 0 0
Arabic 95 60 0 20 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 155 135 0 15 0
Indo-Aryan languages 130 120 0 10 0
Bengali 35 25 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 5
Tamil 20 15 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 5 0
Korean 15 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 170 155 0 5 5
Chinese languages 165 160 0 5 5
Cantonese 80 70 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 65 0 0 0
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 150 130 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 130 0 5 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 565 545 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 55 60 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0 5
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 455 445 0 10 5
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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 90 75 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 80 70 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 40 40 0 5 0
Swahili 0 0 0 5 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 40 15 0 30 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 270 205 0 75 0
English and French 65 10 5 55 0
English and non-official language 195 185 0 10 0
French and non-official language 10 10 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

..

Symbol ...

not applicable

...

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

x

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

F

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

Date modified: