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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 Thompson-Nicola
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 126,945 120,170 30 6,305 440
Single responses 125,820 119,230 30 6,125 430
English 113,315 108,890 5 4,390 25
French 1,685 330 15 1,340 0
Non-official languages 10,815 10,010 5 390 405
Aboriginal languages 805 795 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 35 35 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 30 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 5 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 40 40 0 0 0
Carrier 15 15 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 20 20 0 0 5
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 5 0 0 0
Haida 0 5 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 675 675 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 270 265 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 335 335 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 15 15 0 0 0
Okanagan 45 45 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 0 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 10 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 5 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 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 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,555 1,430 0 85 40
Italian 1,075 1,010 0 40 25
Portuguese 140 120 0 10 5
Romanian 35 30 0 0 0
Spanish 300 270 0 30 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,715 2,545 0 160 15
Dutch 510 485 0 30 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,860 1,730 0 110 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 230 225 0 10 0
Danish 110 110 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 0 0
Swedish 55 55 0 5 0
Afrikaans 95 90 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,120 1,055 0 50 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 115 110 0 5 0
Czech 60 55 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 230 215 0 10 5
Russian 185 170 0 10 5
Serbian 35 30 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 5 0
Ukrainian 370 360 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Baltic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 85 80 0 0 5
Armenian 15 15 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 290 275 0 15 0
Estonian 15 10 0 5 0
Finnish 85 85 0 5 0
Hungarian 185 180 0 5 5
Turkic languages 20 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 375 340 0 10 30
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 375 340 0 5 25
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 365 330 0 10 25
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 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 1,775 1,535 0 35 205
Indo-Aryan languages 1,730 1,495 0 35 200
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 30 0 5 5
Hindi 105 95 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,470 1,260 5 25 185
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 60 60 0 0 5
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 40 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 20 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 250 240 0 5 5
Korean 210 180 0 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 890 810 0 10 70
Chinese languages 885 810 0 10 65
Cantonese 210 190 0 0 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 215 195 0 0 15
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 445 405 0 0 35
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 40 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 95 90 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 5 0
Vietnamese 85 80 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 435 435 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 350 350 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 40 35 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 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 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 20 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,130 945 0 180 5
English and French 195 70 0 120 0
English and non-official language 865 815 0 40 5
French and non-official language 60 50 0 10 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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