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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 Kelowna, CYFootnote 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 115,575 107,180 55 7,795 545
Single responses 114,290 106,210 50 7,490 540
English 98,145 92,855 5 5,265 20
French 1,935 255 40 1,640 0
Non-official languages 14,210 13,105 5 580 520
Aboriginal languages 40 40 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 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 15 15 0 0 0
Carrier 0 5 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 10 10 0 0 0
Dene 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 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 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,630 1,440 0 150 45
Italian 660 595 0 55 15
Portuguese 255 220 0 30 10
Romanian 165 135 0 25 10
Spanish 545 485 0 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,985 4,755 0 210 25
Dutch 635 595 0 35 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 4,025 3,850 0 150 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 265 250 5 15 0
Danish 115 115 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 70 65 0 0 0
Swedish 65 55 0 15 0
Afrikaans 55 55 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,335 2,230 0 75 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 45 0 0 0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 0 0
Croatian 225 215 0 5 5
Czech 165 155 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 420 395 0 20 5
Russian 445 415 0 10 20
Serbian 125 120 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0 0
Slovak 70 65 0 0 0
Slovenian 70 65 0 5 0
Ukrainian 675 660 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 90 85 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 5 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 555 515 0 30 10
Estonian 20 20 0 0 0
Finnish 95 90 0 0 0
Hungarian 440 405 0 25 10
Turkic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 190 160 0 30 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 185 150 0 30 5
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 145 115 0 20 5
Hebrew 15 15 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 0 5 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,915 1,640 0 35 245
Indo-Aryan languages 1,740 1,480 0 25 230
Bengali 60 55 0 0 5
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 95 90 0 5 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,500 1,255 0 25 220
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 180 160 0 10 10
Kurdish 5 10 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 165 150 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 5 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 270 260 0 10 5
Korean 315 280 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 890 780 0 15 90
Chinese languages 880 780 0 15 95
Cantonese 185 150 0 5 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 190 165 0 5 15
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 480 430 0 5 50
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 55 55 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 50 50 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 160 145 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 135 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 590 580 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 50 50 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 470 460 0 5 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 25 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 30 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 20 15 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 10
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,280 970 5 300 5
English and French 275 65 0 210 0
English and non-official language 920 850 0 65 5
French and non-official language 60 45 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 25 15 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

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-XCB2011033.

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