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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. 5Footnote 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 52,235 50,630 5 1,270 320
Single responses 51,870 50,310 10 1,235 315
English 44,335 43,590 0 740 5
French 550 120 5 425 0
Non-official languages 6,980 6,600 0 70 305
Aboriginal languages 775 775 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 755 755 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 730 725 0 0 0
Cree languages 25 20 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 5 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 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 15 15 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 15 10 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 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 5 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 225 190 0 15 20
Italian 40 35 0 5 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 5 0
Romanian 5 5 0 5 0
Spanish 150 130 0 5 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,725 4,440 5 35 255
Dutch 300 285 0 10 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 4,280 4,000 0 25 250
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 125 125 0 0 0
Danish 90 90 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 285 275 0 10 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 50 0 0 5
Russian 50 40 0 0 5
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 100 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 65 65 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 5 0
Hungarian 55 55 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 15 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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 90 85 0 0 5
Indo-Aryan languages 85 85 0 0 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0 5
Hindi 20 20 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0 0
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 15 15 0 0 0
Korean 85 75 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 145 135 0 0 10
Chinese languages 135 125 0 0 10
Cantonese 40 30 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 0 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 10 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 470 465 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 25 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 420 415 0 0 10
Bikol 10 10 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 25 20 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 10 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 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 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. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 0 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 365 325 0 35 0
English and French 60 30 0 30 0
English and non-official language 270 270 0 5 5
French and non-official language 25 25 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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