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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 L7A
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 65,030 59,195 65 3,425 2,340
Single responses 62,140 56,655 60 3,095 2,325
English 36,460 34,735 0 1,695 25
French 575 30 30 510 0
Non-official languages 25,105 21,885 35 885 2,305
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 4,280 3,775 10 175 325
Italian 860 775 5 45 45
Portuguese 2,190 1,925 0 60 210
Romanian 85 70 0 15 5
Spanish 1,140 1,010 5 55 65
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 140 120 5 15 0
Dutch 35 30 0 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 85 70 5 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 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 1,390 1,255 0 65 70
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 5 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 210 190 0 10 5
Czech 15 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 35 35 0 0 0
Polish 835 760 0 35 45
Russian 75 65 0 5 5
Serbian 70 60 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 5 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 25 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 130 120 0 5 5
Armenian 5 10 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 50 40 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 40 35 0 0 0
Turkic languages 65 50 0 0 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 65 50 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 685 585 0 60 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 65 55 5 5 5
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 55 50 0 5 0
Semitic languages 610 530 0 55 30
Amharic 65 65 0 0 0
Arabic 360 285 0 55 20
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 70 70 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 85 85 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 12,355 10,515 5 355 1,480
Indo-Aryan languages 12,020 10,215 0 345 1,460
Bengali 280 240 0 20 20
Gujarati 1,030 890 0 30 105
Hindi 1,080 995 0 45 45
Konkani 30 25 0 5 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 7,285 5,935 5 175 1,170
Sindhi 60 50 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 235 220 0 5 5
Urdu 1,940 1,775 0 60 110
Nepali 60 55 0 0 0
Iranian languages 320 290 0 10 20
Kurdish 30 25 0 0 5
Pashto 50 45 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 235 220 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 2,070 1,865 0 60 150
Kannada 15 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 360 335 0 15 10
Tamil 1,610 1,430 5 40 135
Telugu 85 75 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 5
Korean 25 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 625 510 0 15 100
Chinese languages 620 500 0 15 105
Cantonese 230 180 0 10 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 100 0 0 25
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 255 220 0 5 35
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 45 40 0 0 5
Lao 40 30 0 5 5
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 595 485 0 20 90
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 580 470 0 20 85
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,755 1,710 0 20 20
Bisayan languages 95 100 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 5 0
Pampango 15 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,550 1,515 0 15 20
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 745 690 5 40 10
Akan (Twi) 375 355 0 15 5
Bantu languages 120 105 5 10 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 5 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 0 0
Shona 15 10 0 0 0
Swahili 60 55 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Edo 15 15 0 0 0
Igbo 35 30 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 20 20 0 0 0
Ga 30 30 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 150 135 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 0
Creoles 65 20 5 45 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,895 2,540 5 335 10
English and French 165 30 0 145 0
English and non-official language 2,615 2,480 0 115 15
French and non-official language 70 25 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 35 0

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


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