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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 L3X
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 37,560 33,820 25 3,085 635
Single responses 36,585 33,030 25 2,905 630
English 26,095 24,270 0 1,815 15
French 540 35 10 500 0
Non-official languages 9,950 8,735 10 590 615
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 5 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 2,140 1,850 5 190 90
Italian 980 860 0 75 40
Portuguese 265 240 0 15 10
Romanian 275 215 0 45 10
Spanish 620 530 0 60 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 385 345 0 35 0
Dutch 55 45 0 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 275 250 0 25 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,490 1,330 0 75 90
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 35 0 0 0
Croatian 35 35 0 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 120 120 0 0 0
Polish 305 280 0 10 15
Russian 735 630 0 45 60
Serbian 70 60 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0 0 5
Slovenian 30 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 65 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 5 0
Greek 265 240 0 15 15
Armenian 40 30 0 5 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 205 195 0 10 5
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 0 0
Hungarian 155 145 0 10 0
Turkic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 435 340 0 70 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 5
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 425 330 0 70 20
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 345 255 0 65 20
Hebrew 25 20 0 0 0
Maltese 25 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,385 1,250 0 75 65
Indo-Aryan languages 895 815 0 35 35
Bengali 35 35 0 0 0
Gujarati 100 90 0 0 5
Hindi 80 75 0 5 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 100 90 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 55 50 0 0 5
Urdu 495 455 0 20 20
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 495 430 0 35 25
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 480 415 0 35 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 225 210 0 5 10
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 170 160 0 0 10
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 70 55 0 0 15
Korean 210 185 0 5 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,375 1,160 5 45 175
Chinese languages 1,370 1,155 0 45 170
Cantonese 465 400 0 15 45
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 5 0 0 5
Fukien 10 15 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 340 270 0 5 55
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 540 450 0 20 70
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 385 345 0 15 30
Lao 345 300 0 15 30
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 715 620 0 20 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 405 350 0 10 45
Vietnamese 305 270 0 10 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 470 455 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 10 15 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 410 400 0 5 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 50 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 10 0 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 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. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 0 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 5 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 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 980 790 0 185 5
English and French 95 10 0 85 0
English and non-official language 820 765 0 55 5
French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 30 0

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


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