Archived Content

Information identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please contact us to request a format other than those available.

Archived Content

Content is archived.

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

Data table

Select data categories for this table

Filter geography – Can. / N.L.   P.E.I.   N.S.   N.B.   Que.   Ont.   Man.   Sask.   Alta.   B.C.   Y.T.   N.W.T.   Nvt.


This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Perth
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 74,215 70,930 15 2,820 445
Single responses 73,785 70,565 20 2,755 445
English 66,230 64,030 5 2,185 10
French 465 105 10 350 0
Non-official languages 7,085 6,430 5 215 435
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 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 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 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 600 525 5 45 25
Italian 210 185 5 25 5
Portuguese 135 115 0 5 15
Romanian 30 20 0 5 0
Spanish 220 195 0 15 10
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,135 4,680 0 110 345
Dutch 1,265 1,210 0 35 15
Flemish 70 50 0 10 0
Frisian 25 25 0 0 0
German 3,725 3,335 0 60 325
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 55 0 5 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 325 310 0 10 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 10 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 130 125 0 5 0
Russian 30 30 0 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 60 55 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 95 95 0 5 0
Estonian 5 10 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 80 80 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 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 65 60 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 60 60 0 10 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 35 35 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 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 235 205 0 10 20
Indo-Aryan languages 205 180 0 10 15
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 35 0 0 5
Hindi 25 20 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 105 90 0 5 10
Sindhi 10 10 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 20 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 40 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 30 0 0 10
Korean 65 55 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 160 135 0 10 15
Chinese languages 155 130 0 10 20
Cantonese 30 20 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 80 0 5 10
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 110 90 0 5 10
Lao 105 80 0 10 15
Thai 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 85 80 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 65 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 10 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 435 370 0 65 0
English and French 70 25 0 40 0
English and non-official language 320 305 0 10 5
French and non-official language 35 30 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

..

Symbol ...

not applicable

...

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

x

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

F

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

Date modified: