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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 Division No. 7
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 45,635 43,255 20 2,205 155
Single responses 45,315 43,020 20 2,115 155
English 41,300 39,865 0 1,425 10
French 785 145 20 620 0
Non-official languages 3,225 3,010 0 70 145
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 15 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 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 5 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 5 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 165 145 0 15 0
Italian 30 30 0 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0
Romanian 40 40 0 5 0
Spanish 90 70 0 10 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,750 1,670 0 20 65
Dutch 60 60 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,595 1,515 0 15 65
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Danish 20 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 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 355 340 0 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 55 0 0 0
Russian 40 40 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 195 195 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 40 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 65 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 100 90 0 5 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 40 0 0 5
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 60 55 0 5 5
Amharic 5 5 0 5 0
Arabic 40 35 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 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 130 120 0 0 10
Indo-Aryan languages 95 95 0 0 5
Bengali 15 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 40 40 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 35 30 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 235 195 0 0 35
Chinese languages 220 180 0 0 40
Cantonese 45 35 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 155 120 0 0 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 15 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 165 160 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 140 140 0 0 5
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 50 35 0 15 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 10 0 5 0
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 15 10 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 35 40 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 325 230 0 90 5
English and French 95 20 0 75 0
English and non-official language 200 195 0 5 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 0

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

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