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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 Sarnia
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 88,750 82,330 70 6,120 225
Single responses 87,980 81,825 70 5,860 225
English 79,255 75,620 0 3,635 5
French 2,180 230 60 1,895 0
Non-official languages 6,540 5,980 10 335 215
Aboriginal languages 45 45 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 40 40 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 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 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 40 40 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 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,825 1,595 0 130 95
Italian 1,050 935 0 70 45
Portuguese 375 330 0 10 35
Romanian 50 45 0 5 0
Spanish 345 285 0 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,530 1,475 5 50 5
Dutch 885 865 0 15 5
Flemish 30 25 0 5 0
Frisian 30 30 0 0 0
German 525 490 0 30 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 55 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 890 825 0 45 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5 0
Croatian 70 75 0 0 0
Czech 70 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 345 325 0 10 5
Russian 75 60 0 5 5
Serbian 40 35 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 120 120 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 95 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 195 180 0 5 5
Armenian 10 10 0 5 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 160 160 0 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 50 45 0 0 0
Hungarian 110 105 0 5 0
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 170 0 25 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 205 170 0 30 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 175 135 5 25 10
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 700 655 0 15 35
Indo-Aryan languages 665 615 0 15 30
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 270 250 0 5 20
Hindi 90 85 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 75 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 165 155 0 5 5
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 75 75 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 85 75 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 390 350 0 10 25
Chinese languages 350 315 0 10 30
Cantonese 80 65 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 230 205 0 5 15
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 40 40 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 55 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 5 0
Vietnamese 50 50 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 185 185 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 155 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 35 15 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 0 0 15 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 0 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 15 0 5 10 0
Non-verbal languages 15 0 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 770 505 5 260 0
English and French 255 60 5 195 0
English and non-official language 455 425 0 30 0
French and non-official language 45 15 5 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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

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