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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 Elgin
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 86,240 82,190 20 3,265 760
Single responses 85,505 81,560 20 3,170 750
English 73,440 71,170 0 2,255 15
French 875 160 5 710 0
Non-official languages 11,185 10,235 15 205 735
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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. 5 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. 5 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 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 865 765 5 35 65
Italian 195 175 0 15 5
Portuguese 370 320 0 10 40
Romanian 50 55 0 5 0
Spanish 250 220 0 10 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 8,280 7,590 10 105 570
Dutch 1,185 1,160 0 30 0
Flemish 150 145 0 10 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 6,885 6,240 10 70 570
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Danish 25 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 5 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 775 735 0 25 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 220 210 0 5 5
Czech 35 35 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 315 295 0 15 10
Russian 20 25 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 75 75 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 0 0
Greek 45 50 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 5 0
Albanian 80 70 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 250 235 5 10 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 5 0
Hungarian 225 220 0 10 5
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 145 130 0 10 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 145 130 0 10 5
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 85 70 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 55 55 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 145 130 0 5 15
Indo-Aryan languages 125 115 0 0 10
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 5
Hindi 15 15 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 5
Dravidian languages 15 15 5 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 5
Korean 55 50 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 90 70 0 5 15
Chinese languages 90 70 0 5 15
Cantonese 15 15 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 15 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 35 0 0 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 30 25 0 0 5
Lao 20 25 0 0 5
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 225 210 0 0 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 120 0 0 15
Vietnamese 90 80 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 65 65 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 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 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 5 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 5
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 735 635 0 100 5
English and French 120 45 0 75 0
English and non-official language 560 545 0 10 5
French and non-official language 45 40 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 15 0

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

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