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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 L6P
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 61,750 54,985 20 2,615 4,130
Single responses 58,245 51,790 20 2,330 4,095
English 22,325 21,275 0 1,020 35
French 230 20 5 205 0
Non-official languages 35,685 30,500 15 1,100 4,065
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 2,820 2,525 0 145 150
Italian 1,600 1,435 0 90 70
Portuguese 385 340 0 20 25
Romanian 40 30 0 5 0
Spanish 795 720 0 25 55
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 110 105 0 5 0
Dutch 20 20 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 80 75 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 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 520 470 0 30 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 45 40 0 5 0
Czech 15 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 50 50 0 0 5
Polish 215 185 0 15 10
Russian 60 55 0 0 5
Serbian 25 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 25 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 70 60 0 5 0
Armenian 70 60 0 5 5
Albanian 20 20 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 40 35 0 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 35 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,845 1,620 0 55 170
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 270 230 0 20 20
Oromo 35 35 0 0 0
Somali 235 200 0 20 15
Semitic languages 1,580 1,385 0 35 150
Amharic 30 30 0 0 0
Arabic 600 520 5 35 45
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 25 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 910 800 0 5 105
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 24,425 20,470 10 705 3,240
Indo-Aryan languages 23,900 20,030 10 690 3,175
Bengali 245 225 0 5 15
Gujarati 2,010 1,760 0 60 195
Hindi 1,640 1,505 5 60 75
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 60 50 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 18,625 15,280 5 535 2,810
Sindhi 20 20 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 50 0 0 5
Urdu 1,205 1,105 0 20 80
Nepali 30 35 0 0 0
Iranian languages 485 405 0 15 60
Kurdish 25 20 0 0 5
Pashto 25 25 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 425 365 0 15 50
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 2,740 2,440 5 65 240
Kannada 30 30 0 5 0
Malayalam 240 225 0 5 10
Tamil 2,405 2,115 5 60 230
Telugu 65 65 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 65 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 620 520 0 10 95
Chinese languages 615 515 0 5 95
Cantonese 230 190 0 5 35
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 10 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 125 95 0 0 30
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 215 0 0 25
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 145 130 0 0 10
Lao 115 110 0 0 10
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 650 545 0 15 90
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 45 0 0 10
Vietnamese 605 500 0 15 85
Malayo-Polynesian languages 570 560 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 50 50 0 0 5
Malay 10 15 0 5 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 470 460 0 0 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 820 790 0 15 15
Akan (Twi) 580 570 0 10 5
Bantu languages 30 30 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 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 15 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 20 15 0 0 5
Igbo 25 25 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 10 0 0 0
Ga 25 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 130 125 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Creoles 65 20 0 45 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 3,510 3,190 0 285 30
English and French 60 25 0 35 0
English and non-official language 3,325 3,105 0 195 30
French and non-official language 60 45 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 60 10 0 50 0

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


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