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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Grey
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 90,975 85,910 15 4,685 370
Single responses 90,560 85,620 10 4,560 365
English 83,810 80,185 0 3,605 15
French 800 115 10 670 0
Non-official languages 5,950 5,320 5 285 345
Aboriginal languages 10 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 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. 0 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 10 5 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 5 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 510 450 0 35 20
Italian 215 195 5 15 5
Portuguese 145 140 0 0 10
Romanian 20 15 0 5 0
Spanish 125 110 0 15 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,875 3,440 5 150 285
Dutch 870 800 0 45 25
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 25 20 0 5 0
German 2,835 2,495 0 85 260
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 100 90 0 10 0
Danish 60 60 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 10 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 640 585 0 45 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 70 65 0 5 5
Czech 80 75 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 5 0
Polish 195 180 0 15 5
Russian 45 50 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 120 110 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0 0
Greek 50 50 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 220 200 0 20 0
Estonian 40 35 0 5 0
Finnish 65 60 0 5 0
Hungarian 120 105 0 15 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages 50 45 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 20 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 180 160 0 10 10
Indo-Aryan languages 155 145 0 5 5
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0 5
Hindi 20 15 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 50 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 15 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0 0
Korean 80 70 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 125 110 0 0 15
Chinese languages 125 110 0 5 10
Cantonese 25 25 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 70 0 0 10
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 50 50 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 10 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 415 290 0 125 5
English and French 120 35 5 85 0
English and non-official language 265 235 0 30 5
French and non-official language 25 20 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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