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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 Kingston
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 155,405 135,645 315 18,860 580
Single responses 153,800 134,705 310 18,210 575
English 135,720 123,510 10 12,180 20
French 5,095 260 280 4,550 0
Non-official languages 12,990 10,935 20 1,485 550
Aboriginal languages 50 45 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 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 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 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 5 0 5 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 10 15 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,165 2,545 5 400 215
Italian 680 550 5 115 10
Portuguese 1,625 1,385 0 80 165
Romanian 80 35 0 45 0
Spanish 775 575 5 160 35
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,305 1,965 0 335 5
Dutch 855 745 0 105 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0 0
Frisian 40 30 0 5 0
German 1,175 980 0 190 0
Yiddish 25 15 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 180 165 0 20 0
Danish 130 120 0 10 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 5 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,305 1,105 5 175 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 35 25 0 5 0
Croatian 35 35 0 5 0
Czech 140 125 0 15 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0 0
Polish 535 460 0 70 15
Russian 245 210 0 20 15
Serbian 45 30 0 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 0 0
Slovak 40 30 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 5 0
Ukrainian 150 125 0 25 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 45 40 0 10 0
Latvian 25 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 5 0
Greek 420 355 0 45 20
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 280 235 0 45 5
Estonian 35 25 0 10 0
Finnish 70 60 0 5 0
Hungarian 180 150 0 30 5
Turkic languages 90 75 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 80 75 0 10 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 690 510 5 145 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 680 500 5 145 30
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 630 455 0 135 30
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 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 1,415 1,270 0 110 40
Indo-Aryan languages 1,025 940 0 60 25
Bengali 170 150 0 10 5
Gujarati 130 110 0 20 5
Hindi 165 160 0 10 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 155 145 0 5 0
Sindhi 25 25 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 325 300 0 15 5
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 385 325 0 45 10
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 340 280 0 45 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 140 135 0 10 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 65 60 0 0 0
Tamil 55 50 0 5 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 100 90 0 0 5
Korean 435 380 0 25 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,630 1,415 0 85 135
Chinese languages 1,615 1,400 0 85 125
Cantonese 335 285 0 20 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 395 340 0 30 30
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 860 755 0 35 75
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tai languages 15 20 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 215 180 0 20 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 60 0 0 5
Vietnamese 145 120 0 15 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 415 400 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 5 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 5 5
Pampango 10 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 315 310 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 120 90 5 25 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 40 5 25 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 20 10 0 10 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 25 5 0 20 0
Non-verbal languages 40 25 0 0 15
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 5 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,600 940 10 645 5
English and French 570 95 5 470 0
English and non-official language 885 805 0 80 5
French and non-official language 100 35 10 65 0
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 35 0

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

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