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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 Oshawa, 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 148,230 137,930 155 9,440 710
Single responses 146,585 136,760 145 8,975 705
English 128,555 123,150 5 5,380 25
French 3,200 280 120 2,805 0
Non-official languages 14,830 13,335 25 790 675
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 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 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 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,555 3,110 10 235 205
Italian 1,525 1,365 5 70 80
Portuguese 890 780 5 55 55
Romanian 170 115 0 45 10
Spanish 970 845 0 70 60
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,715 1,630 0 80 5
Dutch 600 575 0 25 0
Flemish 15 15 0 0 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 975 925 0 50 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 85 80 0 0 0
Danish 50 45 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 5 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,915 3,565 5 195 150
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 0
Croatian 205 195 0 5 10
Czech 55 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 175 155 0 10 10
Polish 1,940 1,775 0 90 70
Russian 295 245 0 35 15
Serbian 170 145 0 15 15
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 5 0
Slovenian 90 90 0 5 0
Ukrainian 835 770 0 35 30
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Latvian 35 30 0 5 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 0 0
Greek 375 350 0 15 10
Armenian 35 30 0 5 0
Albanian 10 15 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 585 540 0 30 10
Estonian 40 35 0 0 0
Finnish 75 75 0 5 0
Hungarian 475 430 0 25 15
Turkic languages 45 35 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 35 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 585 505 5 60 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages 580 500 10 55 15
Amharic 10 15 0 0 0
Arabic 400 325 5 55 10
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 135 135 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,580 1,445 0 45 85
Indo-Aryan languages 1,140 1,055 0 30 55
Bengali 100 95 0 5 0
Gujarati 265 240 0 10 15
Hindi 110 105 0 5 5
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 160 145 0 5 15
Sindhi 30 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0 0
Urdu 410 385 0 5 20
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 430 385 0 15 35
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 400 360 5 15 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 245 220 0 15 10
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0 5
Tamil 195 165 0 20 10
Telugu 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Korean 145 130 0 10 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 885 740 0 20 120
Chinese languages 880 740 0 25 120
Cantonese 230 190 0 5 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 190 165 0 5 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 455 370 0 10 70
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 50 50 0 0 0
Lao 30 30 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 165 130 0 10 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 5 0
Vietnamese 145 115 0 10 25
Malayo-Polynesian languages 620 600 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 5 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 555 540 0 15 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 95 0 25 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 75 55 0 15 0
Lingala 5 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 35 35 0 5 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 15 5 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Creoles 30 15 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 50 30 0 5 15
American Sign Language 25 25 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5 15
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,645 1,165 10 465 5
English and French 425 85 5 340 0
English and non-official language 1,120 1,045 0 70 5
French and non-official language 75 40 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 25 0 0 15 0

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

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