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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 L4S
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 34,050 29,180 30 2,580 2,255
Single responses 32,785 28,145 25 2,365 2,255
English 10,420 9,390 0 1,015 15
French 190 5 10 170 0
Non-official languages 22,175 18,745 15 1,180 2,235
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 1,415 1,175 0 195 40
Italian 605 535 5 60 10
Portuguese 115 100 0 10 5
Romanian 405 295 5 95 15
Spanish 290 250 0 30 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 75 70 0 10 5
Dutch 5 10 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 45 40 0 5 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 5
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 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 1,680 1,460 0 110 110
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 5 5
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 65 65 0 0 0
Polish 80 65 0 10 0
Russian 1,345 1,155 0 90 100
Serbian 30 30 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 45 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 280 260 0 15 5
Armenian 220 165 0 45 10
Albanian 30 30 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 60 0 10 5
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 50 0 5 0
Turkic languages 120 105 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 30 25 0 0 0
Turkish 80 75 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 745 635 5 75 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 30 0 0 0
Semitic languages 720 615 5 75 25
Amharic 5 5 5 0 0
Arabic 605 505 0 70 25
Hebrew 85 80 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,495 4,005 0 250 245
Indo-Aryan languages 1,635 1,495 0 80 55
Bengali 60 60 0 0 5
Gujarati 510 450 5 35 25
Hindi 205 185 0 5 5
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 115 100 0 5 10
Sindhi 165 150 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 85 80 0 5 0
Urdu 485 455 0 15 15
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 2,850 2,500 0 165 190
Kurdish 30 25 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 2,805 2,455 0 165 180
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 505 470 0 10 20
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 55 0 0 0
Tamil 415 390 0 10 15
Telugu 25 25 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 55 50 0 5 5
Korean 985 860 0 45 80
Sino-Tibetan languages 10,840 8,820 5 370 1,650
Chinese languages 10,835 8,810 5 370 1,645
Cantonese 5,005 4,115 0 165 725
Chaochow (Teochow) 15 15 0 0 5
Fukien 30 20 0 0 15
Hakka 75 50 0 10 10
Mandarin 2,235 1,760 0 75 400
Shanghainese 25 15 0 0 5
Taiwanese 45 35 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,415 2,805 0 115 485
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 25 25 0 0 5
Lao 15 15 0 0 5
Thai 15 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 100 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 120 100 0 10 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 330 320 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malay 60 55 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 245 235 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 100 95 0 5 5
Akan (Twi) 15 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 70 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 80 70 0 0 5
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 40 10 0 30 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5
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 1,265 1,035 5 215 5
English and French 75 10 0 65 0
English and non-official language 1,115 1,010 0 100 10
French and non-official language 35 10 5 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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