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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 Oshawa
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 353,460 326,965 250 24,640 1,605
Single responses 349,425 324,045 240 23,550 1,590
English 306,685 291,245 5 15,385 55
French 6,740 500 190 6,045 0
Non-official languages 36,000 32,305 45 2,120 1,535
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 0 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 0 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 0 0 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 8,485 7,390 20 660 415
Italian 3,740 3,345 10 225 155
Portuguese 1,895 1,680 0 115 95
Romanian 535 385 0 120 25
Spanish 2,315 1,980 5 190 140
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 4,520 4,280 0 230 5
Dutch 1,835 1,770 0 65 5
Flemish 45 35 0 5 0
Frisian 60 60 0 5 0
German 2,290 2,140 0 140 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 210 195 0 15 0
Danish 100 95 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 70 60 0 5 0
Afrikaans 65 70 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 50 50 0 0 5
Gaelic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Welsh 20 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 7,340 6,685 5 410 240
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 65 50 0 10 0
Croatian 390 365 0 15 10
Czech 175 160 0 15 0
Macedonian 595 550 0 20 20
Polish 3,405 3,125 5 175 105
Russian 575 480 5 55 30
Serbian 350 300 0 30 20
Serbo-Croatian 55 50 0 5 5
Slovak 190 170 0 10 5
Slovenian 200 190 0 10 5
Ukrainian 1,295 1,195 0 60 40
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 5
Baltic languages 130 115 0 15 0
Latvian 70 60 0 10 0
Lithuanian 60 50 0 5 0
Greek 1,065 995 0 45 25
Armenian 100 85 0 15 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 1,225 1,150 5 55 25
Estonian 105 100 0 5 0
Finnish 165 160 0 5 0
Hungarian 955 890 5 40 25
Turkic languages 130 115 0 5 15
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 115 100 0 5 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,640 1,360 10 220 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Oromo 10 15 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages 1,615 1,335 10 215 55
Amharic 40 35 0 5 0
Arabic 1,200 940 10 205 45
Hebrew 20 15 0 5 0
Maltese 280 275 0 5 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 0 10
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,625 4,180 0 180 265
Indo-Aryan languages 3,325 3,055 0 115 155
Bengali 240 220 0 15 5
Gujarati 600 535 0 20 45
Hindi 365 340 0 10 10
Konkani 25 20 0 5 0
Marathi 45 40 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 505 455 0 20 30
Sindhi 75 70 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 120 115 0 0 0
Urdu 1,350 1,250 0 40 60
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 1,270 1,095 5 65 110
Kurdish 30 30 0 0 0
Pashto 65 60 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,175 1,005 0 60 100
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 835 750 0 50 35
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 80 65 0 10 0
Tamil 665 610 0 35 25
Telugu 70 60 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 85 80 0 5 0
Korean 405 350 0 20 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,550 2,170 0 70 305
Chinese languages 2,530 2,150 5 70 310
Cantonese 730 620 0 20 95
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0 5
Mandarin 645 560 0 15 70
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,100 930 5 35 135
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 90 85 0 5 0
Lao 40 40 0 0 0
Thai 55 45 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 375 310 0 20 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 30 0 5 0
Vietnamese 340 280 0 15 45
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,720 1,680 0 30 15
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 5 0
Ilocano 55 50 0 0 0
Malay 35 40 0 0 0
Pampango 15 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,555 1,525 0 25 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 360 295 5 55 5
Akan (Twi) 60 60 0 0 0
Bantu languages 165 125 5 35 5
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 25 20 0 0 0
Swahili 75 65 0 15 0
Ganda 10 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 35 35 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 65 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 5
Creoles 90 45 0 40 5
Non-verbal languages 95 60 0 5 30
American Sign Language 40 35 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 55 25 0 0 30
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 4,035 2,920 10 1,090 20
English and French 920 165 5 745 0
English and non-official language 2,810 2,625 0 170 15
French and non-official language 205 95 5 100 5
English, French and non-official language 100 20 0 75 0

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

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