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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 Nanaimo
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 96,915 90,435 45 6,055 380
Single responses 96,040 89,810 40 5,810 380
English 85,840 81,590 5 4,235 15
French 1,350 190 30 1,130 0
Non-official languages 8,850 8,035 5 450 360
Aboriginal languages 80 75 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 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 5 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 5 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 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 5 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 30 25 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 15 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. 10 10 0 5 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 5 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 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 800 695 0 90 10
Italian 270 245 0 20 0
Portuguese 85 80 0 10 0
Romanian 45 30 0 15 0
Spanish 400 345 0 50 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,460 2,265 0 185 10
Dutch 600 545 0 55 5
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 1,295 1,190 0 100 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 445 425 0 15 0
Danish 255 240 0 10 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 5 0
Norwegian 85 80 0 0 0
Swedish 95 90 0 5 0
Afrikaans 85 80 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages 40 35 0 0 5
Gaelic languages 25 20 0 0 5
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,040 975 0 45 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 155 145 0 5 5
Czech 125 120 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 5
Polish 235 215 0 20 5
Russian 175 150 0 10 10
Serbian 50 45 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 50 45 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 185 180 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 70 65 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 330 320 0 10 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 115 110 0 0 0
Hungarian 205 195 0 5 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 150 125 0 20 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 140 115 0 20 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 110 90 0 15 5
Hebrew 10 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,225 1,090 0 30 105
Indo-Aryan languages 1,125 990 0 25 100
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0 5
Hindi 85 85 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 930 815 0 15 95
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 5
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 100 95 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 95 5 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 215 205 0 5 5
Korean 280 240 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,100 990 0 15 100
Chinese languages 1,100 990 5 15 100
Cantonese 195 180 0 0 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 315 265 5 10 40
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 510 0 0 40
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 65 65 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 60 55 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 420 355 0 20 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 75 0 0 20
Vietnamese 330 285 0 15 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 415 400 0 0 10
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 340 335 0 0 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. 25 20 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 60 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 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 0 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 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 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 5 0 0 15
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 870 625 0 245 0
English and French 225 60 0 160 0
English and non-official language 590 540 0 45 5
French and non-official language 35 20 0 20 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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