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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 L6H
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 59,520 52,490 35 6,260 730
Single responses 58,070 51,380 30 5,935 725
English 40,650 36,965 0 3,670 15
French 1,025 55 15 955 0
Non-official languages 16,390 14,365 15 1,315 705
Aboriginal languages 0 5 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 3,380 2,855 0 385 130
Italian 1,095 905 0 165 20
Portuguese 975 855 0 55 60
Romanian 290 200 0 80 15
Spanish 1,020 900 0 85 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 790 685 0 100 5
Dutch 135 115 0 25 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 555 485 0 70 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 35 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 5 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 3,815 3,405 5 285 120
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0 5
Bulgarian 75 65 0 10 0
Croatian 875 815 0 35 25
Czech 95 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 135 115 0 15 0
Polish 1,360 1,200 0 115 45
Russian 430 370 0 40 15
Serbian 370 320 0 35 10
Serbo-Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Slovak 90 90 0 0 0
Slovenian 45 45 0 5 0
Ukrainian 250 230 0 20 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Baltic languages 95 85 5 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 70 65 5 5 0
Greek 220 175 0 35 10
Armenian 70 55 0 15 0
Albanian 40 30 0 5 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 325 295 0 20 10
Estonian 30 25 0 0 0
Finnish 45 50 0 0 0
Hungarian 250 225 0 15 10
Turkic languages 100 90 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 100 85 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 975 815 0 125 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 5 0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 955 800 0 120 30
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 865 710 5 120 30
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 45 40 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,800 2,515 0 165 120
Indo-Aryan languages 2,385 2,150 0 135 95
Bengali 110 95 0 10 5
Gujarati 215 195 0 15 10
Hindi 295 265 0 25 5
Konkani 15 15 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 910 805 0 35 65
Sindhi 20 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 50 0 0 0
Urdu 750 685 0 55 20
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 385 330 0 30 25
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 35 30 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 340 295 0 25 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 185 170 0 10 5
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 5 0
Tamil 130 125 0 5 5
Telugu 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 85 85 0 0 0
Korean 950 850 0 25 80
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,745 1,495 5 75 170
Chinese languages 1,745 1,495 0 75 175
Cantonese 475 415 0 25 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 30 25 0 0 5
Hakka 10 5 5 0 0
Mandarin 495 415 0 25 50
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 720 615 0 25 70
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 25 0 5 5
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 145 125 0 20 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 150 120 0 15 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 550 535 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 510 500 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 5 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 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 10 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5
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 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,445 1,115 5 320 10
English and French 175 20 0 150 0
English and non-official language 1,165 1,065 5 90 5
French and non-official language 60 20 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 55 5 0 45 0

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


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