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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 Cape Breton
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 100,105 95,865 25 4,120 90
Single responses 99,735 95,600 25 4,025 90
English 94,530 91,330 5 3,180 15
French 925 170 20 735 0
Non-official languages 4,275 4,090 5 105 75
Aboriginal languages 2,865 2,810 5 25 25
Algonquian languages 2,860 2,805 0 25 25
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 5 0 0 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 5 10 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 2,845 2,790 0 25 25
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 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 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 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 130 120 0 10 5
Italian 75 70 0 0 5
Portuguese 10 10 0 0 0
Romanian 5 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 40 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 155 135 0 15 0
Dutch 50 45 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 80 70 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 55 55 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 55 55 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 145 125 0 15 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 5 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 65 55 0 10 0
Russian 15 10 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 55 55 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 40 0 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 320 285 0 10 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 315 285 0 15 15
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 315 285 0 15 20
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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 150 135 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 125 115 0 5 5
Bengali 15 15 0 5 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 25 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 5 5
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 10 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 220 200 5 5 15
Chinese languages 220 205 0 5 15
Cantonese 20 15 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 165 0 0 10
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 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 5 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 5 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 5
Multiple responses 370 270 0 95 0
English and French 130 45 0 85 0
English and non-official language 225 220 0 5 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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

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