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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 YorkFootnote 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 96,365 76,190 315 19,600 260
Single responses 95,315 75,810 310 18,935 255
English 84,145 71,700 5 12,430 10
French 6,345 165 295 5,885 0
Non-official languages 4,820 3,940 15 625 245
Aboriginal languages 195 190 0 0 5
Algonquian languages 190 185 0 0 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 5 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 160 155 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 25 25 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 485 360 5 110 15
Italian 70 55 0 10 5
Portuguese 55 40 0 15 5
Romanian 85 60 0 25 5
Spanish 265 200 0 55 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 720 565 0 150 5
Dutch 225 185 0 40 0
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 415 320 0 90 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 60 50 0 10 0
Danish 30 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 460 365 0 75 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 30 0 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 40 30 0 5 0
Czech 10 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 75 50 0 15 0
Russian 155 125 0 15 5
Serbian 75 60 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 20 0 5 5
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 20 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 25 15 0 10 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 60 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 5 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 50 40 0 10 0
Turkic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 480 340 5 105 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 475 330 5 105 35
Amharic 20 15 0 0 0
Arabic 445 310 5 105 30
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 595 535 0 30 30
Indo-Aryan languages 365 325 0 15 25
Bengali 95 95 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 5 0
Hindi 95 90 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 5 0
Nepali 40 30 0 0 15
Iranian languages 230 205 0 15 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 220 205 0 15 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 55 50 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 5 0
Tamil 30 25 0 5 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 5 5
Korean 550 495 0 15 40
Sino-Tibetan languages 735 625 0 35 70
Chinese languages 730 620 0 35 70
Cantonese 75 60 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 180 150 0 5 20
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 465 400 0 25 40
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 25 30 0 5 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 35 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 105 105 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 80 0 0 0
Bikol 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 120 75 5 35 5
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 90 50 5 30 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 10 0 10 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 35 25 5 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 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 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 20 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 10
Other languages 10 0 0 0 15
Multiple responses 1,055 380 0 665 5
English and French 645 70 0 575 0
English and non-official language 370 305 0 60 5
French and non-official language 15 5 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 15 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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