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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 Kingston, CY
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 120,315 103,460 290 16,015 555
Single responses 118,915 102,635 285 15,440 550
English 102,850 92,570 5 10,250 20
French 4,315 215 260 3,835 0
Non-official languages 11,750 9,845 15 1,355 530
Aboriginal languages 45 45 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 25 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 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,905 2,315 5 380 210
Italian 605 495 0 95 15
Portuguese 1,480 1,240 5 75 160
Romanian 75 30 0 45 0
Spanish 740 545 5 155 35
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,755 1,480 0 270 5
Dutch 640 550 0 90 0
Flemish 10 15 0 5 0
Frisian 30 30 0 5 0
German 900 745 0 155 0
Yiddish 20 10 0 10 0
Scandinavian languages 135 125 0 10 0
Danish 90 80 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 35 30 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,140 965 0 155 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 5 0
Croatian 35 30 0 5 0
Czech 115 100 0 15 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0 0
Polish 455 390 5 60 5
Russian 225 195 0 20 15
Serbian 45 35 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 5 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 5 0
Ukrainian 130 105 0 25 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Baltic languages 35 30 0 10 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 5 0
Greek 390 330 0 50 20
Armenian 15 10 0 5 5
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 220 185 0 35 0
Estonian 25 20 0 5 0
Finnish 45 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 150 125 0 25 0
Turkic languages 90 80 0 15 0
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 85 70 0 10 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 670 500 5 135 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 660 490 5 130 35
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 610 450 0 125 30
Hebrew 25 25 0 5 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 1,375 1,230 0 110 35
Indo-Aryan languages 990 900 0 60 25
Bengali 170 150 0 10 10
Gujarati 120 95 0 20 10
Hindi 170 150 0 5 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 150 140 0 10 5
Sindhi 25 15 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 320 295 0 15 5
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 380 325 0 45 10
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 335 280 0 45 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 140 125 0 10 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0 5
Tamil 55 50 0 10 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 95 80 0 5 5
Korean 420 365 0 25 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,600 1,385 0 85 130
Chinese languages 1,580 1,370 0 85 125
Cantonese 330 280 0 20 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 395 340 0 25 25
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 840 735 0 40 70
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 205 170 0 15 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 55 0 5 5
Vietnamese 140 115 0 15 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 400 380 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 25 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 5 0
Pampango 5 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 300 290 0 5 5
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 110 85 0 25 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 35 0 25 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 10 0 15 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Creoles 20 0 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 35 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,410 825 5 575 5
English and French 490 75 5 410 0
English and non-official language 785 715 0 70 5
French and non-official language 85 25 0 60 0
English, French and non-official language 45 15 0 35 0

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

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