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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 Cobourg, T
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 17,950 16,585 5 1,345 20
Single responses 17,860 16,520 0 1,320 20
English 16,635 15,635 0 995 0
French 245 25 0 220 0
Non-official languages 980 860 0 100 15
Aboriginal languages 0 0 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 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 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 165 135 5 25 5
Italian 100 75 0 15 0
Portuguese 20 25 0 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0 0
Spanish 45 35 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 330 295 0 35 0
Dutch 140 125 0 15 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 165 145 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 135 125 0 15 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 65 55 0 5 0
Russian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbian 5 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 5
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 45 35 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 5 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 5 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 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 25 15 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 80 80 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 25 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 15 10 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 60 50 0 5 10
Chinese languages 60 45 0 0 10
Cantonese 20 15 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 10 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 20 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 30 35 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 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 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 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 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 90 70 0 25 0
English and French 25 5 0 15 0
English and non-official language 60 55 0 5 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 5 0 0 0

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

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