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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 Wood Buffalo
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 66,845 61,650 100 4,715 385
Single responses 65,530 60,590 95 4,465 375
English 53,045 50,695 5 2,340 10
French 1,795 95 80 1,620 0
Non-official languages 10,690 9,805 15 505 365
Aboriginal languages 855 840 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 520 505 0 5 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 515 495 0 5 5
Cree, n.o.s. 505 495 0 10 5
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 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 320 320 0 5 5
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 320 315 0 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,140 985 0 100 55
Italian 55 40 0 15 0
Portuguese 115 95 0 15 5
Romanian 85 60 0 20 0
Spanish 890 780 0 60 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 430 400 0 20 5
Dutch 85 75 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 195 180 0 15 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 130 125 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 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 480 430 0 35 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 5 0
Czech 30 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 135 120 0 10 5
Russian 100 85 0 5 0
Serbian 55 45 0 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 65 60 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 30 20 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 15 10 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 50 45 0 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 5 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,595 1,380 5 145 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 615 585 0 20 15
Oromo 45 35 0 0 0
Somali 575 540 0 15 15
Semitic languages 965 795 10 120 45
Amharic 150 135 0 10 0
Arabic 755 600 5 110 40
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 40 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,845 2,625 5 75 140
Indo-Aryan languages 2,650 2,460 0 55 135
Bengali 195 185 0 5 5
Gujarati 860 770 0 10 70
Hindi 335 325 0 10 5
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 40 45 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 300 285 0 5 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0
Urdu 835 780 0 20 35
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 175 150 0 20 10
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 40 40 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 135 105 5 20 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 345 325 0 10 10
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 140 0 0 10
Tamil 145 135 0 5 5
Telugu 45 40 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 0
Korean 95 85 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 675 615 0 10 45
Chinese languages 665 610 0 10 50
Cantonese 100 90 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 155 145 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 360 0 0 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 5 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,550 1,525 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,400 1,385 0 10 5
Bikol 5 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. 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 345 305 5 30 5
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0 0
Bantu languages 175 160 0 20 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 5 0
Shona 55 60 0 0 0
Swahili 30 15 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 0 5
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 25 20 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 90 80 5 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 10 0
Creoles 30 15 0 15 5
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,315 1,055 5 245 10
English and French 210 45 0 160 0
English and non-official language 1,040 990 0 40 10
French and non-official language 45 10 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0

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

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