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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 Prescott and Russell
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 84,345 17,505 10,780 55,985 65
Single responses 82,700 17,345 10,735 54,560 65
English 26,120 15,860 20 10,230 5
French 54,100 165 10,630 43,310 5
Non-official languages 2,480 1,310 85 1,025 55
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 5 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 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 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 10 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 435 165 15 245 10
Italian 150 45 5 100 5
Portuguese 80 35 0 45 0
Romanian 45 15 5 20 0
Spanish 160 65 5 75 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 920 555 15 345 5
Dutch 215 140 5 70 0
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 665 390 10 260 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 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 285 165 5 110 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 15 0 5 0
Czech 20 5 0 15 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 90 55 0 30 0
Russian 65 45 0 20 5
Serbian 35 15 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 0 5 0 0
Ukrainian 40 15 5 20 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 70 35 0 35 5
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 5 0 0 5 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 50 0 25 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 65 45 0 20 0
Turkic languages 25 15 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 15 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 165 65 20 80 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 160 65 15 75 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 155 60 10 75 5
Hebrew 5 5 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 150 100 0 45 5
Indo-Aryan languages 135 90 0 40 5
Bengali 80 55 0 20 5
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 5 0
Konkani 5 0 0 5 0
Marathi 0 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 15 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 15 0 10 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 35 20 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 35 20 0 10 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 65 45 0 15 5
Chinese languages 65 40 5 10 10
Cantonese 5 5 0 5 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 25 5 10 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 25 15 5 5 0
Lao 10 5 5 10 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 45 45 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0 0
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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 25 5 5 15 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 5 0
Bantu languages 20 0 5 15 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 0 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 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 75 5 25 40 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 10 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,640 165 50 1,425 0
English and French 1,425 60 35 1,330 0
English and non-official language 135 100 0 35 0
French and non-official language 55 0 15 40 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 25 0

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

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