Archived Content

Information identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please contact us to request a format other than those available.

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

Data table

Select data categories for this table


This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Swift Current
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 17,320 16,560 5 720 30
Single responses 17,175 16,430 0 710 35
English 15,120 14,625 0 495 0
French 235 40 0 190 0
Non-official languages 1,815 1,765 0 25 30
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 0 0 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 90 85 0 5 5
Italian 0 5 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 85 80 0 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,050 1,040 0 10 0
Dutch 50 50 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 965 960 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 75 75 0 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 15 15 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 45 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 10 5 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
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 15 15 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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 60 60 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 55 55 0 5 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 105 85 0 0 20
Chinese languages 100 80 0 0 20
Cantonese 40 25 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 0 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 50 0 0 5
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 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 300 300 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 15 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 265 265 0 0 0
Bikol 5 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 145 135 0 15 0
English and French 15 0 0 15 0
English and non-official language 130 130 0 5 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

..

Symbol ...

not applicable

...

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

x

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

F

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

Date modified: