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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 LambtonFootnote 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 124,875 116,850 85 7,665 275
Single responses 123,950 116,245 80 7,345 275
English 112,840 108,090 0 4,735 15
French 2,575 300 65 2,215 0
Non-official languages 8,530 7,865 10 400 260
Aboriginal languages 50 50 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 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 40 40 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 5 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 5 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 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 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,985 1,730 0 145 105
Italian 1,110 980 0 85 50
Portuguese 420 365 0 15 35
Romanian 50 50 0 10 0
Spanish 405 335 0 40 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,945 2,835 0 85 20
Dutch 1,755 1,720 0 30 5
Flemish 85 80 0 5 0
Frisian 40 40 0 0 0
German 975 910 0 45 15
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 70 65 0 5 0
Danish 50 50 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 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 1,100 1,030 0 55 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 80 85 0 0 0
Czech 100 95 0 0 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 415 390 0 15 5
Russian 90 70 0 10 10
Serbian 50 40 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 170 165 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 125 115 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Latvian 20 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Greek 200 185 0 5 5
Armenian 10 10 0 5 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 195 180 0 10 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 125 120 0 5 0
Turkic languages 20 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 5 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 245 200 5 30 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Oromo 5 5 0 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 240 200 5 30 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 195 145 0 30 10
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 720 670 0 20 35
Indo-Aryan languages 675 630 0 15 30
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 275 250 0 5 20
Hindi 90 85 0 5 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 85 80 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 165 155 0 5 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 35 0 0 5
Kurdish 10 5 0 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 75 75 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 115 100 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 420 380 0 10 30
Chinese languages 380 345 0 10 30
Cantonese 85 80 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 40 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 240 215 0 5 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 40 35 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 5
Thai 15 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 5 0
Vietnamese 50 50 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 200 195 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 175 165 0 5 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 35 15 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 0 5 15 0
Lingala 5 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 10 0 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 25 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 925 600 5 320 0
English and French 325 70 5 245 0
English and non-official language 535 505 0 30 0
French and non-official language 55 20 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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

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