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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 Prince George, CYFootnote 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 71,115 67,100 15 3,710 295
Single responses 70,425 66,555 10 3,560 295
English 62,695 60,225 0 2,450 25
French 1,065 175 10 885 0
Non-official languages 6,660 6,150 5 225 275
Aboriginal languages 275 265 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 75 70 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 70 65 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 65 0 5 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 10 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 165 160 0 0 0
Carrier 145 145 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 10 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 10 5 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 5 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 30 30 0 5 0
Gitksan 20 20 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 770 710 0 40 25
Italian 280 265 0 10 0
Portuguese 250 225 0 5 20
Romanian 50 45 0 10 5
Spanish 185 165 0 15 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,535 1,465 0 70 5
Dutch 270 250 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,060 1,005 0 50 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 170 170 0 5 0
Danish 85 80 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 0 0
Swedish 40 35 0 5 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 770 745 0 25 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 15 0 0 0
Croatian 190 185 0 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 150 145 0 5 0
Russian 75 70 0 0 5
Serbian 25 25 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 35 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 210 205 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 80 75 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 190 185 0 0 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 90 90 0 0 0
Hungarian 90 85 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 135 130 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 135 130 0 5 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 120 115 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 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 1,470 1,295 0 25 150
Indo-Aryan languages 1,435 1,260 0 25 150
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 70 65 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,280 1,105 0 20 150
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 45 45 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 5
Iranian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 25 0 0 5
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 25 15 0 0 5
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 70 65 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 555 490 0 10 55
Chinese languages 545 485 0 10 55
Cantonese 150 130 0 0 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 90 80 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 300 265 0 5 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 440 430 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 40 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 360 350 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 100 65 0 25 5
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 60 35 0 20 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 5 0 15 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 25 15 0 10 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 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 5 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 5 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 695 540 5 150 0
English and French 155 40 0 110 0
English and non-official language 500 475 0 25 0
French and non-official language 30 20 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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Footnote 1

In 2006, the population and/or dwelling counts for this census subdivision were found to be incorrect. Since it is not possible to make changes to the 2006 Census data presented in these tables, the 2006 data should be used with caution. For further details, please refer to the Population and dwelling count amendments, 2011 Census.

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

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