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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 Nord-du-Québec^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	42,450	17,000	11,725	9,885	3,840
Single responses	42,090	16,835	11,715	9,710	3,830
English	1,825	1,160	5	650	10
French	14,730	10	11,015	3,705	0
Non-official languages	25,540	15,665	690	5,360	3,825
Aboriginal languages	25,270	15,610	635	5,215	3,805
Algonquian languages	14,615	9,510	85	3,370	1,655
Algonquin	30	5	5	25	0
Atikamekw	5	0	0	5	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	14,565	9,495	80	3,335	1,655
Cree, n.o.s.	14,560	9,495	80	3,330	1,660
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	5	5	5	5	0
Naskapi	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	5	5	0	5	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	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	10,650	6,095	555	1,850	2,150
Inuktitut	10,625	6,070	555	1,850	2,145
Inuinnaqtun	0	0	0	0	0
Inuvialuktun	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	35	30	0	5	5
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	50	5	10	30	5
Italian	5	0	0	5	0
Portuguese	5	0	0	0	0
Romanian	0	0	0	0	0
Spanish	45	5	10	25	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	15	0	0	10	0
Dutch	5	5	0	0	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	10	5	0	5	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.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	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	25	5	5	15	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	5	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	5	0	5	5	0
Russian	10	0	0	5	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0	0	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	5	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	0	0	0	5	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	5	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	50	0	10	35	5
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	10	0	5	5	0
Oromo	5	0	5	5	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	45	0	10	25	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	40	5	10	25	5
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.	5	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	10	5	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	10	5	0	0	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)	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	5	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	5	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	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	5	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	5	0	0	5	0
Korean	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	20	10	5	5	5
Chinese languages	20	10	5	5	5
Cantonese	5	0	0	0	5
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	5	5	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	10	5	5	0	0
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	0	5	0	0
Lao	10	0	10	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	10	0	0	5	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	5	0	0	5	0
Vietnamese	5	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	15	5	0	10	0
Bisayan languages	5	0	0	5	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	5	0	0	5	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	5	0	0	5	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	35	10	10	15	0
Akan (Twi)	10	5	0	0	0
Bantu languages	15	5	5	5	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	5	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.	5	0	0	5	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	5	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	10	0	5	10	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	5	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	10	0	0	0	5
American Sign Language	5	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	5	5
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	360	170	10	175	10
English and French	85	0	5	75	0
English and non-official language	210	160	0	45	5
French and non-official language	45	5	5	30	0
English, French and non-official language	15	5	0	15	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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