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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)

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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 Terrace^{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	15,400	14,475	10	840	70
Single responses	15,205	14,315	15	810	70
English	13,445	12,945	5	495	10
French	320	35	10	275	0
Non-official languages	1,435	1,335	0	40	60
Aboriginal languages	100	95	0	5	0
Algonquian languages	5	5	0	5	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	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	5	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	5	5	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	5	5	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	75	75	0	0	0
Gitksan	25	25	0	0	0
Nisga'a	45	45	0	5	0
Tsimshian	10	10	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	10	10	0	0	0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)	0	0	0	0	0
Haisla	5	5	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	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	0	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	405	365	0	15	30
Italian	50	45	0	5	0
Portuguese	315	280	0	5	25
Romanian	5	0	0	0	0
Spanish	40	40	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	395	375	0	15	0
Dutch	80	80	0	0	0
Flemish	5	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	250	235	0	10	5
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	30	30	0	5	0
Danish	10	10	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	15	0	0	0
Swedish	0	5	0	0	0
Afrikaans	30	30	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	5	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	80	75	0	5	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	5	10	0	0	0
Czech	5	10	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	20	20	0	0	0
Russian	15	15	0	5	0
Serbian	5	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	10	0	0	0
Ukrainian	20	25	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	5	0	0	0
Greek	15	15	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	35	35	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	15	20	0	0	0
Hungarian	15	20	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	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	5	5	0	0	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	245	210	0	5	30
Indo-Aryan languages	240	205	0	5	30
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	5	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	5	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	235	200	0	5	25
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	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	10	10	0	0	0
Korean	10	10	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	35	35	0	0	0
Chinese languages	40	35	0	0	5
Cantonese	15	15	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	25	25	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	15	15	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	15	10	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	80	75	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	10	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	5	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	65	60	0	0	0
Bikol	0	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.	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	5	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	5	5	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	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	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	5	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.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	5	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.	5	5	0	0	5
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	195	165	0	30	0
English and French	35	10	0	25	0
English and non-official language	155	155	0	0	0
French and non-official language	0	0	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	5	0	5	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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