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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 Sherbrooke, V
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 152,450 2,020 85,820 63,815 790
Single responses 150,605 1,975 85,355 62,485 785
English 6,235 1,525 90 4,615 5
French 135,790 15 81,185 54,575 15
Non-official languages 8,580 435 4,085 3,295 765
Aboriginal languages 5 0 5 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 5 5 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 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 0 5 5 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 5 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 3,160 55 1,795 1,105 215
Italian 140 0 45 90 0
Portuguese 165 0 60 95 5
Romanian 135 0 45 85 0
Spanish 2,715 45 1,635 825 205
Catalan 10 5 5 10 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 175 35 20 125 0
Dutch 35 10 5 30 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 115 20 15 85 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Celtic languages 0 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 1,355 20 675 580 75
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 140 5 100 40 5
Bulgarian 25 0 10 15 0
Croatian 60 5 20 35 0
Czech 30 0 5 25 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 110 10 30 75 0
Russian 120 10 55 50 10
Serbian 430 5 225 170 35
Serbo-Croatian 390 0 215 150 20
Slovak 20 0 10 10 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 0 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 5 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 5 0 0
Greek 65 0 5 50 5
Armenian 10 0 0 5 0
Albanian 10 0 5 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 5 10 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 5 10 15 0
Turkic languages 40 5 25 15 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 0 20 15 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,330 30 605 565 130
Berber languages (Kabyle) 50 0 35 15 5
Cushitic languages 70 0 40 30 0
Oromo 65 0 35 25 0
Somali 10 0 5 5 0
Semitic languages 1,175 30 515 500 125
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,155 30 510 495 125
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 30 0 15 15 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,020 135 305 310 270
Indo-Aryan languages 270 55 30 80 100
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 0 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 10 0 10 5
Nepali 215 35 20 60 100
Iranian languages 750 75 275 230 170
Kurdish 15 0 15 5 0
Pashto 5 0 5 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 730 75 265 225 160
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 5 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 10 5 10 0
Korean 35 15 5 10 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 245 90 35 90 35
Chinese languages 245 90 40 85 30
Cantonese 20 5 0 10 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 20 20 20 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 65 20 55 25
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 20 0 5 15 0
Lao 15 0 5 10 5
Thai 5 0 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 215 5 95 90 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 0 25 20 5
Vietnamese 155 10 65 70 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 60 5 25 25 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 15 5 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 25 0 15 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 620 10 385 210 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 480 10 310 150 10
Lingala 45 0 35 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 160 0 100 55 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 65 5 30 35 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 135 0 105 25 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 5 40 25 5
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 45 0 15 25 0
Bamanankan 20 0 10 5 0
Ewe 20 0 15 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 0 30 25 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 0 10 15 0
Creoles 105 0 60 40 5
Non-verbal languages 10 0 15 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 5 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,845 45 465 1,330 15
English and French 1,125 15 85 1,025 0
English and non-official language 95 30 5 60 0
French and non-official language 550 5 355 185 10
English, French and non-official language 70 0 15 55 0

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

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