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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 Milton, TFootnote 1
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 83,680 76,325 95 6,190 1,070
Single responses 81,135 74,185 90 5,795 1,065
English 58,145 54,585 5 3,530 20
French 1,230 95 65 1,070 0
Non-official languages 21,760 19,505 15 1,190 1,040
Aboriginal languages 5 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 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 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 5 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 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,370 3,815 5 340 210
Italian 1,170 1,040 0 95 30
Portuguese 1,145 1,045 0 60 40
Romanian 295 215 0 60 20
Spanish 1,765 1,510 0 130 120
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 930 850 0 70 10
Dutch 310 300 0 10 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 515 460 0 50 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 75 70 0 5 0
Danish 45 45 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,555 3,230 0 190 135
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 60 0 0 5
Bulgarian 55 50 0 5 0
Croatian 570 535 0 25 10
Czech 65 50 0 5 0
Macedonian 90 85 0 0 0
Polish 1,815 1,650 0 90 75
Russian 335 290 0 25 20
Serbian 245 210 0 15 15
Serbo-Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Slovak 60 60 0 0 0
Slovenian 50 50 0 0 0
Ukrainian 185 160 0 15 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 5 0
Greek 185 165 0 20 0
Armenian 25 15 0 5 0
Albanian 105 90 5 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 210 185 0 15 10
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 5 0
Hungarian 165 145 0 10 5
Turkic languages 105 95 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 105 95 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,320 1,120 10 140 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,290 1,100 5 140 45
Amharic 15 15 0 0 5
Arabic 1,105 930 5 135 40
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 70 70 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 70 60 5 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 6,735 6,110 0 235 390
Indo-Aryan languages 6,290 5,715 0 210 360
Bengali 180 160 0 15 5
Gujarati 405 350 0 15 35
Hindi 500 465 0 20 15
Konkani 25 30 0 0 0
Marathi 35 35 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,360 1,180 5 45 125
Sindhi 70 65 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 55 0 0 0
Urdu 3,625 3,345 0 100 175
Nepali 30 30 0 0 0
Iranian languages 400 350 0 25 25
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 45 50 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 350 300 0 25 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 700 650 0 20 30
Kannada 25 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 110 100 0 0 0
Tamil 455 420 0 10 25
Telugu 110 100 0 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0 0
Korean 220 200 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,205 1,035 0 50 110
Chinese languages 1,180 1,015 0 50 115
Cantonese 255 230 0 10 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 20 20 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 405 345 0 15 50
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 480 405 0 25 50
Tibetan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 50 45 0 5 5
Lao 35 30 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 275 235 0 15 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 260 220 0 15 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,400 1,365 5 20 15
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 5 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malay 75 75 0 0 5
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,240 1,215 0 15 15
Bikol 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 160 140 0 20 5
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 0 0
Bantu languages 55 45 0 10 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 5 0
Swahili 15 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 35 10 0 25 0
Non-verbal languages 85 55 0 15 20
American Sign Language 70 45 0 10 20
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,540 2,140 5 390 5
English and French 225 40 0 180 0
English and non-official language 2,110 1,990 0 115 5
French and non-official language 145 90 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 65 10 0 50 0

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Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

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