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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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Age groups (17A)

Sex (3)

This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Grande Prairie^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	54,695	50,570	70	3,890	165
Single responses	54,015	50,125	60	3,660	165
English	48,235	45,970	0	2,255	5
French	1,405	115	55	1,230	0
Non-official languages	4,375	4,035	5	175	155
Aboriginal languages	230	225	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	180	175	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	175	175	0	5	0
Cree, n.o.s.	175	175	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Plains Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	5	0	0	0
Cree, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	5	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	45	45	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0	0	0
Wetsuweten	0	0	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0	0	0
Dene	35	35	0	0	0
Tlicho (Dogrib)	5	5	0	0	0
Gwich'in	0	0	0	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0	0	0
South Slavey	5	5	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	5	10	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	420	375	0	30	15
Italian	40	35	0	5	0
Portuguese	35	30	0	5	5
Romanian	40	30	0	5	5
Spanish	310	285	0	20	10
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	875	840	0	30	10
Dutch	95	90	0	5	0
Flemish	5	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	665	640	0	15	10
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	65	65	5	0	0
Danish	15	15	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	45	40	5	0	0
Swedish	5	10	0	0	0
Afrikaans	40	40	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	585	540	0	25	25
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	5	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	15	10	0	5	0
Croatian	20	25	0	0	0
Czech	20	15	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	210	195	0	5	10
Russian	80	70	0	0	10
Serbian	10	5	0	5	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	20	15	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	195	190	0	0	5
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	15	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	25	25	0	5	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	20	20	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	5	5	0	0	0
Hungarian	15	15	0	0	0
Turkic languages	15	10	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	15	15	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	290	240	0	40	5
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	120	110	0	5	5
Oromo	15	15	0	0	0
Somali	105	95	0	5	10
Semitic languages	165	130	0	35	0
Amharic	10	10	0	0	0
Arabic	145	115	0	30	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	420	380	0	15	25
Indo-Aryan languages	360	330	0	10	25
Bengali	15	10	0	0	0
Gujarati	15	15	0	0	0
Hindi	55	45	0	5	5
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	5	5	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	210	190	0	5	15
Sindhi	10	10	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	5	0	0	0
Urdu	50	45	0	5	5
Nepali	0	5	0	0	0
Iranian languages	60	55	0	5	0
Kurdish	0	5	0	0	0
Pashto	15	10	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	45	40	0	0	5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	40	30	0	0	5
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	5	0	0	0
Tamil	25	20	0	0	5
Telugu	10	10	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	15	20	0	0	0
Korean	45	40	0	0	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	300	240	0	5	60
Chinese languages	300	235	0	10	55
Cantonese	95	70	0	0	30
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	20	20	0	0	5
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	5	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	175	140	0	5	30
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	5	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	10	5	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	5	10	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	15	10	0	0	5
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	15	10	0	0	5
Malayo-Polynesian languages	940	925	0	10	5
Bisayan languages	75	80	0	5	0
Ilocano	45	45	0	0	0
Malay	5	10	0	0	0
Pampango	0	5	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	790	780	0	10	0
Bikol	0	0	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.	0	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	75	65	0	15	0
Akan (Twi)	5	5	0	0	0
Bantu languages	50	40	0	10	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	15	15	0	0	0
Swahili	5	10	0	0	0
Ganda	15	15	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	15	5	0	5	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	10	5	0	0	0
Wolof	5	0	0	5	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.	10	10	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	15	15	0	0	0
Creoles	10	5	0	10	0
Non-verbal languages	5	5	0	0	0
American Sign Language	5	5	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	5	5	0	0	0
Multiple responses	680	445	10	225	0
English and French	215	20	0	190	0
English and non-official language	430	415	0	15	0
French and non-official language	20	10	0	10	0
English, French and non-official language	15	0	0	15	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: 2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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