Tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Generation Status (4), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey

• Knowledge of official languages (5): Total - Knowledge of official languages
• Number of non-official languages spoken (5): Total - Number of non-official languages spoken
• Age groups (10): Total - Age groups
• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details detailed mother tongue , generation status , knowledge of official languages , number of non-official languages spoken , age groups and sex for the population in private households in Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Global non-response rate (GNR)^{Footnote 1} = 16.1 %

Detailed mother tongue (158)	Generation status (4)
	Total - Generation status	First generation^Footnote 2	Second generation^Footnote 3	Third generation or more^Footnote 4
Total - Detailed mother tongue	40,800	3,295	3,255	34,250
Single responses	40,470	3,220	3,230	34,020
English	31,255	910	2,720	27,625
French	1,115	65	70	985
Non-official languages	8,100	2,245	445	5,410
Aboriginal languages	5,405	10	75	5,330
Romance languages	195	165	25	0
Italian	35	25	0	0
Portuguese	20	15	0	0
Romanian	25	25	0	0
Spanish	125	100	20	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	250	150	70	25
Dutch	45	30	15	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	175	100	55	20
Yiddish	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	25	20	0	0
Danish	15	20	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	15	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0
Welsh	15	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	290	175	85	30
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	30	10	20	0
Czech	15	10	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	55	25	30	0
Russian	50	45	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	15	15	0	0
Slovak	20	15	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	50	0	20	30
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Greek	20	0	0	0
Armenian	95	85	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	20	20	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	20	20	0	0
Turkic languages	15	10	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0
Turkish	15	10	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	265	230	30	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	15	15	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	15	15	0	0
Semitic languages	250	215	30	0
Amharic	65	55	0	0
Arabic	160	140	15	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	25	25	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	105	90	10	0
Indo-Aryan languages	75	65	10	0
Bengali	15	15	0	0
Gujarati	10	0	0	0
Hindi	35	20	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	10	10	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	10	10	0	0
Nepali	10	10	0	0
Iranian languages	20	20	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	20	20	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0
Dravidian languages	35	30	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	25	25	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	30	30	0	0
Korean	25	25	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	270	200	70	0
Chinese languages	265	195	70	0
Cantonese	130	85	40	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	40	40	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	95	75	25	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	105	90	10	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	105	90	10	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	690	655	25	0
Bisayan languages	95	90	0	0
Ilocano	50	50	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	535	500	25	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	195	190	0	0
Akan (Twi)	10	0	0	0
Bantu languages	185	180	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0
Shona	125	130	0	0
Swahili	10	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	40	30	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creoles	65	60	0	0
Non-verbal languages	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	330	75	25	235
English and French	25	0	10	15
English and non-official language	295	70	15	215
French and non-official language	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0

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suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

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too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) estimates, the global non-response rate (GNR) is used as an indicator of data quality. This indicator combines complete non-response (household) and partial non-response (question) into a single rate. The value of the GNR is presented to users. A smaller GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and as a result, lower risk of inaccuracy. The threshold used for estimates' suppression is a GNR of 50% or more. For more information, please refer to the National Household Survey User Guide, 2011.

Footnote 2

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or have ever been, immigrants to Canada.

Footnote 3

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

Footnote 4

'Third generation or more' includes persons who were born in Canada with both parents born in Canada.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011034.