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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 Sunshine Coast
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 28,425 26,340 10 2,020 60
Single responses 28,215 26,185 10 1,960 55
English 25,325 23,970 5 1,350 0
French 475 50 5 420 0
Non-official languages 2,410 2,160 0 190 55
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 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 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 25 25 0 5 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 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. 25 20 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 215 185 0 35 5
Italian 90 75 0 10 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 5 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 95 80 0 20 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,015 910 0 105 0
Dutch 200 175 0 30 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 620 555 0 70 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 185 175 0 5 0
Danish 95 90 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 5 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 295 265 0 20 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Czech 40 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 80 70 5 10 0
Russian 40 40 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 10 0 5 5
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 55 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 45 35 0 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 95 90 0 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 45 45 0 5 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 10 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 20 15 0 10 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5 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 65 60 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 50 45 0 0 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 5 0
Hindi 5 10 0 0 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 5 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 15 0 0 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 10 0 5 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 100 90 0 0 10
Korean 30 25 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 190 160 0 0 20
Chinese languages 185 160 0 5 25
Cantonese 55 50 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 80 0 0 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 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 230 225 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 5
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 180 180 0 0 5
Bikol 0 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 210 150 5 55 0
English and French 60 20 0 35 0
English and non-official language 130 120 0 15 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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

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