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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 Saguenay, V
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 143,560 150 114,120 29,245 45
Single responses 143,075 150 113,995 28,890 45
English 1,185 105 100 975 0
French 140,910 10 113,420 27,480 5
Non-official languages 980 35 475 435 40
Aboriginal languages 85 0 80 0 5
Algonquian languages 85 0 70 5 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 50 0 45 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 30 0 25 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. 5 0 5 0 0
Romance languages 325 5 195 115 15
Italian 40 0 25 15 0
Portuguese 40 0 25 15 0
Romanian 5 0 5 5 0
Spanish 235 0 145 80 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 40 5 5 35 0
Dutch 5 0 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 35 5 10 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 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 70 5 25 40 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 5 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 5 5 15 0
Russian 15 5 5 5 0
Serbian 15 0 5 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 5 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 5 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 20 0 5 10 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 0 5 10 0
Turkic languages 25 0 15 10 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 0 10 10 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 145 5 70 65 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 15 0 5 10 0
Oromo 15 0 5 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 115 5 60 50 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 115 5 60 50 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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. 10 0 5 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 45 0 10 35 0
Indo-Aryan languages 5 0 0 5 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 35 5 10 30 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 5 5 30 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 55 10 10 35 5
Chinese languages 55 5 5 35 5
Cantonese 0 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 0 0 10 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 5 5 25 5
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 10 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 20 0 5 15 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 0 5 10 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 20 5 5 10 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 5 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 75 0 40 40 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 0 20 15 0
Lingala 5 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 15 0 10 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 15 0 10 5 0
Bamanankan 5 0 5 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 0 5 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Creoles 15 0 10 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 0 5 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 480 5 125 355 0
English and French 350 0 55 295 0
English and non-official language 25 0 5 20 0
French and non-official language 95 0 60 35 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 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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