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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 N2E
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 37,180 34,340 25 1,960 855
Single responses 36,340 33,615 20 1,860 845
English 24,750 23,840 0 905 10
French 435 45 15 380 0
Non-official languages 11,155 9,730 10 580 835
Aboriginal languages 10 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,380 2,860 0 255 255
Italian 75 65 0 10 0
Portuguese 765 655 0 25 85
Romanian 1,015 780 5 170 60
Spanish 1,525 1,365 0 50 110
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 685 640 0 45 5
Dutch 110 100 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 555 515 0 35 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 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 2,345 2,140 0 105 95
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 70 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 5
Croatian 260 240 0 5 10
Czech 60 55 0 5 0
Macedonian 30 30 0 0 0
Polish 595 555 0 20 20
Russian 95 80 0 10 5
Serbian 950 835 0 65 50
Serbo-Croatian 95 90 0 0 5
Slovak 45 45 0 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 0 5
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 90 75 0 5 5
Armenian 15 10 0 0 0
Albanian 140 120 0 5 15
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 165 150 0 10 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 155 140 0 5 5
Turkic languages 155 130 0 0 15
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 140 125 0 5 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 905 780 5 30 90
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 145 115 0 0 20
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 125 105 5 0 20
Semitic languages 760 665 0 30 70
Amharic 140 140 0 5 0
Arabic 510 425 0 25 60
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 70 70 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,540 1,310 0 50 185
Indo-Aryan languages 1,100 940 0 40 120
Bengali 75 70 0 0 5
Gujarati 125 110 0 5 10
Hindi 80 75 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 525 410 0 25 90
Sindhi 20 15 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 255 230 5 5 20
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 395 340 0 10 45
Kurdish 100 80 0 0 20
Pashto 25 20 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 275 245 0 10 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 25 0 0 15
Dravidian languages 145 130 0 10 5
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 45 0 5 0
Tamil 60 55 0 5 5
Telugu 20 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 30 20 0 0 10
Korean 55 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 430 370 0 10 50
Chinese languages 400 360 0 10 30
Cantonese 85 70 0 10 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 100 95 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 215 195 0 0 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 30 10 0 0 20
Tai languages 155 140 0 5 15
Lao 145 125 0 5 15
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 560 470 0 25 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 100 95 0 0 5
Vietnamese 455 380 0 20 60
Malayo-Polynesian languages 140 135 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 0 0 0
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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 85 75 0 10 5
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 45 35 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 65 60 0 0 10
Multiple responses 840 730 0 100 10
English and French 75 15 0 60 0
English and non-official language 730 700 0 25 5
French and non-official language 20 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 5 10 0

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


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