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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 Peterborough, 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 77,570 71,670 20 5,670 210
Single responses 77,060 71,320 20 5,505 205
English 71,555 67,135 5 4,405 10
French 900 95 15 790 0
Non-official languages 4,610 4,090 0 315 200
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 10 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 25 20 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) 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 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 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 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 665 585 0 70 15
Italian 270 240 0 20 5
Portuguese 60 55 0 10 5
Romanian 45 30 0 10 5
Spanish 290 255 0 25 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 940 870 0 70 0
Dutch 355 330 0 25 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 5 5 0 5 0
German 510 465 0 45 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 630 565 0 50 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0 0
Polish 345 310 0 30 10
Russian 75 60 0 10 5
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 65 60 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 80 75 0 10 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 80 70 0 0 5
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 155 130 0 20 5
Estonian 20 20 0 0 0
Finnish 50 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 90 70 0 10 5
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 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 185 160 0 15 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 15 0 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 170 145 0 20 10
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 140 115 0 20 10
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 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 605 540 0 25 40
Indo-Aryan languages 475 420 0 20 30
Bengali 35 30 0 5 0
Gujarati 145 130 0 0 15
Hindi 80 70 0 5 0
Konkani 5 10 0 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 60 0 5 10
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 110 100 0 0 5
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 130 110 0 10 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 30 20 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 95 85 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 90 0 5 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 5
Tamil 55 50 0 5 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 0 0
Korean 165 155 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 490 425 0 15 55
Chinese languages 465 405 0 15 50
Cantonese 70 65 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 80 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 295 250 0 10 40
Tibetan languages 20 15 0 5 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 200 170 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 65 0 0 5
Vietnamese 130 105 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 100 95 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 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 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 45 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 30 0 5 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 35 15 0 0 20
American Sign Language 15 5 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 15
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 505 345 0 160 5
English and French 160 30 0 125 0
English and non-official language 325 295 0 25 5
French and non-official language 10 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

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