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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 and Forward Sortation Areas, 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 L2H
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 21,210 19,470 10 1,430 295
Single responses 20,775 19,125 5 1,345 295
English 15,690 14,885 0 800 5
French 375 50 5 315 0
Non-official languages 4,710 4,190 5 225 290
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 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 0 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 0 0 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 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 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 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 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 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,375 1,245 0 95 40
Italian 1,040 950 0 60 25
Portuguese 30 25 0 0 0
Romanian 45 35 0 10 0
Spanish 270 230 0 20 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 215 195 0 15 5
Dutch 45 45 0 5 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 150 135 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 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 1,225 1,090 0 50 85
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 60 60 0 5 0
Croatian 70 65 0 5 5
Czech 15 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 220 200 0 15 10
Russian 50 40 0 5 5
Serbian 660 575 0 30 55
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 5 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 65 65 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 40 40 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 80 70 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 65 0 10 0
Turkic languages 45 45 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 45 40 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 165 150 0 5 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages 160 145 0 10 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 140 130 0 10 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 460 410 0 25 30
Indo-Aryan languages 375 335 0 15 25
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 120 100 0 5 15
Hindi 60 60 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 100 95 0 5 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 80 70 0 10 5
Kurdish 25 20 0 5 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 45 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 35 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 5 0
Korean 120 110 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 485 385 0 15 85
Chinese languages 485 385 0 10 85
Cantonese 150 110 0 10 35
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0 0
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 5
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 250 0 5 50
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 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 170 145 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 170 145 0 5 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 210 200 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 200 190 0 0 5
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 20 15 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 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 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. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 430 340 0 90 0
English and French 65 15 0 50 0
English and non-official language 350 325 0 30 5
French and non-official language 15 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011032.


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