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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 Kelowna
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 177,615 165,365 70 11,515 665
Single responses 175,820 163,995 65 11,110 655
English 152,525 144,845 5 7,645 25
French 3,080 425 55 2,595 0
Non-official languages 20,220 18,725 5 865 630
Aboriginal languages 100 100 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 25 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 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 25 25 0 0 0
Carrier 10 5 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 15 15 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 45 40 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 40 40 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,240 1,975 0 205 65
Italian 920 830 0 80 15
Portuguese 355 305 0 35 10
Romanian 225 180 0 30 15
Spanish 745 660 0 50 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 7,785 7,405 0 340 40
Dutch 1,070 995 0 75 0
Flemish 20 20 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 6,160 5,885 0 235 35
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 405 385 0 15 0
Danish 180 175 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 100 100 0 0 0
Swedish 105 95 0 10 0
Afrikaans 110 110 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 10 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,560 3,390 0 120 45
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 55 50 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 0 0
Croatian 335 325 0 10 10
Czech 280 270 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 710 655 0 45 10
Russian 685 635 0 20 25
Serbian 170 155 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 50 45 0 0 0
Slovak 110 105 0 5 0
Slovenian 140 135 0 5 0
Ukrainian 940 920 0 15 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0 0
Greek 125 115 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 5
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 910 850 0 45 15
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 170 160 0 5 0
Hungarian 715 660 0 40 5
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 245 200 0 30 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 230 195 0 30 5
Amharic 10 10 0 0 5
Arabic 165 140 0 30 5
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 15 15 0 5 0
Tigrigna 5 5 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 2,275 1,955 0 50 270
Indo-Aryan languages 2,045 1,755 0 35 255
Bengali 65 55 0 0 5
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 125 115 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,765 1,490 0 30 245
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 5
Nepali 25 20 0 5 0
Iranian languages 230 200 0 10 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 190 0 10 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 350 330 0 10 10
Korean 350 310 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,020 895 0 20 100
Chinese languages 1,015 890 0 20 105
Cantonese 235 190 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 210 185 0 5 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 540 475 0 5 50
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 75 75 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 70 70 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 205 190 0 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 200 180 0 5 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 725 715 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 40 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 55 0 0 5
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 585 575 0 5 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 5 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 30 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
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 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 50 25 0 0 25
American Sign Language 25 15 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,795 1,370 5 410 10
English and French 395 100 0 295 0
English and non-official language 1,275 1,190 0 80 5
French and non-official language 90 65 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 35 20 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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