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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 M9A
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 33,270 29,075 35 3,245 910
Single responses 32,440 28,395 40 3,095 910
English 18,075 16,365 0 1,705 5
French 425 20 25 380 0
Non-official languages 13,940 12,015 10 1,010 905
Aboriginal languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 3,310 2,785 5 315 200
Italian 1,375 1,195 0 130 45
Portuguese 595 520 0 40 40
Romanian 185 115 0 60 15
Spanish 1,150 955 5 85 105
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 465 400 0 60 0
Dutch 60 45 0 20 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 365 325 0 35 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 4,880 4,185 5 385 300
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 10 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 60 50 0 0 10
Bulgarian 105 90 0 10 10
Croatian 260 230 0 20 10
Czech 70 65 0 0 0
Macedonian 65 55 0 15 0
Polish 1,145 1,005 0 85 55
Russian 800 690 5 55 50
Serbian 695 580 0 60 60
Serbo-Croatian 80 70 0 0 10
Slovak 95 90 0 5 0
Slovenian 60 50 0 10 5
Ukrainian 1,420 1,200 0 120 90
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Baltic languages 185 165 0 15 5
Latvian 45 40 0 5 0
Lithuanian 140 125 0 5 5
Greek 205 190 0 15 0
Armenian 25 20 0 5 0
Albanian 280 230 0 30 25
Georgian 5 10 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 255 215 0 25 10
Estonian 45 40 0 5 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 195 165 0 20 15
Turkic languages 80 75 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 65 60 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 835 725 0 55 50
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 420 385 0 10 30
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 405 375 0 5 25
Semitic languages 415 345 0 45 20
Amharic 35 30 0 0 0
Arabic 265 200 0 45 25
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 85 80 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,025 945 5 30 50
Indo-Aryan languages 820 770 0 20 25
Bengali 220 215 0 0 10
Gujarati 90 85 0 5 5
Hindi 165 150 0 10 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 35 35 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 75 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0 0
Urdu 180 170 0 0 5
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 190 170 0 5 20
Kurdish 35 25 0 0 10
Pashto 5 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 150 135 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 145 140 0 5 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0 0
Tamil 75 65 0 0 5
Telugu 50 50 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 70 70 0 5 5
Korean 845 655 0 30 160
Sino-Tibetan languages 720 625 0 30 65
Chinese languages 705 610 0 25 70
Cantonese 140 120 0 10 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 210 190 0 5 20
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 340 295 0 15 30
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 90 70 0 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 85 70 0 5 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 380 375 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 5 0
Malay 20 15 0 0 5
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 330 330 0 5 5
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. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 100 90 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Edo 5 5 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. 25 20 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 10 15 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 835 680 0 155 0
English and French 70 15 0 55 0
English and non-official language 685 635 0 55 5
French and non-official language 50 20 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0

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


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