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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 Sarnia, 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 71,575 65,990 65 5,305 215
Single responses 70,870 65,535 60 5,065 220
English 62,930 59,840 5 3,090 5
French 1,900 200 50 1,650 0
Non-official languages 6,040 5,495 5 320 210
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 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 25 25 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,730 1,510 5 120 95
Italian 1,000 885 0 70 45
Portuguese 350 310 0 10 30
Romanian 45 40 0 5 0
Spanish 335 275 0 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,280 1,225 0 50 5
Dutch 725 705 0 15 0
Flemish 25 20 0 5 0
Frisian 25 30 0 0 0
German 445 420 0 30 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 45 0 5 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 830 780 0 40 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5 0
Croatian 65 65 0 0 0
Czech 60 60 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 325 310 0 10 5
Russian 75 60 0 5 5
Serbian 40 30 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 115 110 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 100 90 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 185 175 0 5 10
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 155 145 0 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0 0
Hungarian 105 100 0 5 5
Turkic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 205 170 0 25 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 200 165 5 25 10
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 170 130 0 25 10
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 685 635 0 15 30
Indo-Aryan languages 645 600 0 15 30
Bengali 25 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 255 230 0 5 15
Hindi 85 85 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 75 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 160 150 0 5 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 70 75 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 25 25 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 75 65 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 380 345 0 10 25
Chinese languages 345 305 0 5 25
Cantonese 75 70 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 40 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 220 200 0 5 15
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 40 40 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 50 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 175 175 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 5
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 150 150 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 30 15 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 5 0 15 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 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. 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 5 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 700 460 0 240 0
English and French 225 45 0 175 0
English and non-official language 420 395 0 30 0
French and non-official language 40 10 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0

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

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