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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 Kentville
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 26,135 24,215 5 1,875 40
Single responses 26,045 24,165 5 1,835 40
English 25,180 23,670 0 1,505 5
French 315 25 5 280 0
Non-official languages 560 470 0 50 40
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 5
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 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 45 20 0 0 25
Italian 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 20 0 5 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 235 0 25 0
Dutch 165 160 0 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 70 55 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 35 30 0 10 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Czech 5 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 10 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 15 15 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 35 25 0 10 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 35 25 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 10 0
Hebrew 0 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 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 5 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 55 40 0 0 5
Chinese languages 55 40 0 5 10
Cantonese 30 20 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 5
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 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 20 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 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 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. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 5 5 0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 90 50 0 35 0
English and French 45 15 0 35 0
English and non-official language 35 35 0 5 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0

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

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