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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 Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 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 509,950 485,740 130 23,450 625
Single responses 508,830 485,065 130 23,020 620
English 497,560 476,755 20 20,715 70
French 2,480 600 90 1,785 0
Non-official languages 8,790 7,710 15 510 550
Aboriginal languages 2,720 2,515 0 40 160
Algonquian languages 2,050 1,865 0 40 145
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 2,035 1,850 0 35 140
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 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 0 0 0 0 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 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 15
Inuktitut 640 625 0 0 10
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 630 500 0 100 25
Italian 70 50 0 20 0
Portuguese 90 70 0 25 0
Romanian 40 25 0 15 0
Spanish 425 350 0 45 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 685 570 0 110 0
Dutch 95 75 0 20 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 365 290 0 70 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 145 135 0 15 0
Danish 40 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 35 35 0 5 0
Norwegian 55 45 0 5 0
Swedish 20 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 70 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 515 440 0 45 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 55 0 5 5
Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 5
Polish 100 85 0 10 5
Russian 205 180 0 10 20
Serbian 25 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 5 0 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 5
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 40 0 10 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 5 20
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 80 60 0 20 0
Estonian 15 5 0 10 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages 50 40 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 655 545 0 60 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 5 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 630 525 5 50 55
Amharic 15 10 0 0 5
Arabic 590 495 0 50 45
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 5
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 955 865 0 35 50
Indo-Aryan languages 790 725 0 25 40
Bengali 195 190 0 0 10
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 5
Hindi 95 95 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 35 30 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 100 0 5 5
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 5
Urdu 200 180 0 15 5
Nepali 55 40 0 0 15
Iranian languages 145 130 0 10 10
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 125 105 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 210 200 0 5 5
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 65 60 0 0 5
Tamil 85 80 0 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 5 0
Korean 70 60 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,250 1,100 0 35 120
Chinese languages 1,230 1,080 0 35 115
Cantonese 155 120 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 170 150 0 10 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 25 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 875 780 0 20 80
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 25 25 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 30 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 325 320 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 145 110 10 25 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 5 0
Bantu languages 85 50 5 20 5
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 30 15 0 10 10
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 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 35 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 60 55 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 140 60 0 5 70
American Sign Language 55 35 0 5 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 0 430 5
English and French 470 110 0 355 0
English and non-official language 585 535 0 45 10
French and non-official language 45 20 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011031.

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