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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 Whitehorse
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 25,785 21,815 80 3,795 95
Single responses 25,445 21,610 80 3,670 95
English 21,750 19,355 5 2,390 5
French 1,185 45 75 1,065 0
Non-official languages 2,515 2,205 5 215 90
Aboriginal languages 200 190 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 5 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 135 130 0 5 0
Carrier 5 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 10 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 25 20 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 5 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) 5 5 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 40 40 0 0 5
Southern Tutchone 45 35 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 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 5 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 25 25 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 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 5 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 185 155 5 15 10
Italian 30 20 0 5 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 140 120 0 10 5
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 700 590 0 105 0
Dutch 100 85 0 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 550 455 0 90 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 210 180 0 20 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Czech 35 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 10 0
Russian 55 45 0 5 10
Serbian 10 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 65 55 0 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 5 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 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 155 140 0 10 5
Indo-Aryan languages 135 125 0 10 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 80 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 20 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 45 0 0 0
Korean 30 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 255 195 0 10 45
Chinese languages 255 195 0 10 50
Cantonese 90 70 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 30 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 95 0 0 20
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 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 55 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 55 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 480 465 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 40 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 355 345 0 10 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 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. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 345 215 0 130 0
English and French 115 15 0 95 0
English and non-official language 200 185 0 20 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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

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