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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 St. Catharines - Niagara
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 386,520 353,445 490 29,910 2,680
Single responses 381,390 349,825 470 28,435 2,660
English 314,670 300,225 10 14,370 70
French 12,830 1,010 410 11,410 0
Non-official languages 53,885 48,595 45 2,655 2,585
Aboriginal languages 85 75 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 55 45 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 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 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 25 15 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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) 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Mohawk 15 15 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 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. 5 10 0 5 0
Romance languages 16,225 14,270 15 870 1,080
Italian 11,205 10,015 5 525 650
Portuguese 630 555 0 45 25
Romanian 330 265 0 50 10
Spanish 4,065 3,430 0 240 390
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages 10,585 10,070 5 405 110
Dutch 3,550 3,425 0 120 10
Flemish 55 45 0 10 0
Frisian 55 55 0 0 0
German 6,545 6,190 5 250 105
Yiddish 15 15 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 275 255 0 20 0
Danish 165 160 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 75 65 0 5 0
Afrikaans 95 90 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 40 35 0 10 0
Gaelic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 10,490 9,590 5 505 385
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 160 145 0 5 10
Bulgarian 285 255 5 25 10
Croatian 960 910 0 25 30
Czech 300 280 0 15 5
Macedonian 70 65 0 5 5
Polish 3,610 3,310 0 175 130
Russian 850 730 5 60 55
Serbian 1,380 1,220 0 75 90
Serbo-Croatian 100 90 0 5 5
Slovak 455 440 0 15 5
Slovenian 395 385 0 10 5
Ukrainian 1,825 1,685 0 95 45
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 80 75 0 0 5
Baltic languages 250 230 0 10 5
Latvian 120 115 0 5 0
Lithuanian 125 120 0 5 0
Greek 695 650 0 25 20
Armenian 215 180 0 25 15
Albanian 125 115 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 2,150 2,025 0 80 45
Estonian 100 100 0 10 0
Finnish 170 160 0 10 5
Hungarian 1,875 1,765 0 65 45
Turkic languages 310 280 0 20 15
Azerbaijani 10 15 0 0 0
Turkish 290 260 0 15 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,370 2,015 0 230 125
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 135 125 0 5 5
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0
Somali 125 120 0 5 5
Semitic languages 2,235 1,890 0 225 115
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 1,970 1,640 5 215 115
Hebrew 55 50 0 5 0
Maltese 120 115 0 5 0
Tigrigna 35 30 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,670 2,435 0 100 135
Indo-Aryan languages 2,035 1,855 0 75 110
Bengali 140 130 0 10 0
Gujarati 460 400 0 15 45
Hindi 280 260 0 10 10
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 30 30 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 360 320 0 10 30
Sindhi 40 40 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 70 65 0 0 0
Urdu 620 585 0 20 20
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 595 545 0 25 25
Kurdish 195 180 0 5 10
Pashto 45 45 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 360 330 0 20 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 270 260 0 5 5
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 115 110 0 5 0
Tamil 115 110 0 5 0
Telugu 35 35 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 290 270 0 5 10
Korean 830 740 0 30 60
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,955 2,520 0 55 380
Chinese languages 2,945 2,510 0 60 380
Cantonese 640 495 0 20 125
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 10 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 555 495 0 10 50
Shanghainese 15 10 0 0 5
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,705 1,485 0 25 200
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Burmese 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 320 275 0 15 35
Lao 260 220 0 10 30
Thai 60 55 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 770 630 5 40 105
Khmer (Cambodian) 165 130 0 15 20
Vietnamese 605 500 0 25 80
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,485 1,460 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 60 55 0 5 0
Malay 35 30 0 0 0
Pampango 15 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,295 1,275 0 10 5
Bikol 5 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 410 320 5 75 10
Akan (Twi) 35 30 0 5 0
Bantu languages 300 225 5 60 10
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 0 15 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 0 0 10 0
Shona 100 95 0 5 0
Swahili 100 85 0 10 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 35 0 15 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 5 0
Creoles 180 55 10 120 0
Non-verbal languages 90 60 0 5 25
American Sign Language 45 35 0 5 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 0 15
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 5,135 3,620 15 1,475 20
English and French 1,330 230 5 1,095 0
English and non-official language 3,455 3,255 5 185 15
French and non-official language 250 105 10 135 5
English, French and non-official language 95 30 0 65 0

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

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