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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, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 Nanaimo
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 144,925 135,215 50 9,235 420
Single responses 143,680 134,335 50 8,885 415
English 129,230 122,790 0 6,415 20
French 2,105 295 35 1,770 0
Non-official languages 12,350 11,245 10 700 400
Aboriginal languages 95 95 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 20 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 15 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. 10 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 10 10 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,075 935 0 125 15
Italian 370 335 0 40 0
Portuguese 125 110 0 15 0
Romanian 55 40 0 15 5
Spanish 525 450 5 60 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,425 4,080 0 330 10
Dutch 1,135 1,025 0 110 0
Flemish 20 10 0 5 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 2,405 2,225 0 175 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 730 700 0 30 0
Danish 410 385 0 20 0
Icelandic 15 20 0 0 0
Norwegian 150 145 0 5 0
Swedish 155 145 0 5 0
Afrikaans 105 100 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 55 50 0 10 0
Gaelic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Welsh 25 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,500 1,395 0 80 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 210 195 0 5 5
Czech 170 160 0 15 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 320 285 0 30 5
Russian 235 215 0 10 10
Serbian 55 55 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 65 65 0 0 0
Slovenian 40 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 340 320 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Greek 90 80 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 5 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 480 455 0 25 0
Estonian 25 20 0 5 0
Finnish 165 155 0 5 0
Hungarian 295 275 0 15 5
Turkic languages 35 25 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 160 140 0 20 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 150 125 0 20 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 120 95 0 15 5
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 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 1,295 1,150 0 30 110
Indo-Aryan languages 1,170 1,045 0 25 105
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0 0
Hindi 90 85 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 965 850 0 20 95
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 5
Nepali 5 5 0 0 5
Iranian languages 115 105 5 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 115 105 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0 5
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 290 280 0 5 10
Korean 350 315 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,225 1,095 0 15 110
Chinese languages 1,220 1,095 0 15 110
Cantonese 225 200 0 0 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 340 290 5 10 40
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 610 560 5 5 45
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 80 80 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 80 75 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 435 375 0 15 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 0 15
Vietnamese 345 300 0 15 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 550 530 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 455 445 0 0 10
Bikol 5 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. 20 20 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 65 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 20 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 10 10 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 5 0 0 20
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 5 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,240 880 5 350 5
English and French 345 95 0 245 0
English and non-official language 810 750 5 55 5
French and non-official language 55 25 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011033.

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