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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 AlgomaFootnote 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 114,345 99,445 510 13,990 400
Single responses 113,165 98,800 500 13,455 400
English 96,470 89,820 5 6,640 10
French 7,405 500 490 6,415 0
Non-official languages 9,280 8,485 10 400 385
Aboriginal languages 470 460 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 450 445 0 5 0
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 15 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 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 425 420 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 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 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,280 3,805 5 205 270
Italian 3,815 3,415 5 140 255
Portuguese 200 185 0 10 5
Romanian 30 20 0 10 0
Spanish 240 185 0 45 5
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 1,625 1,490 0 85 45
Dutch 270 240 0 25 5
Flemish 25 20 0 5 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 1,215 1,125 5 50 40
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 105 100 0 5 0
Danish 45 40 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 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 1,060 1,005 0 40 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 170 165 0 0 0
Czech 45 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 435 405 0 15 10
Russian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 5 0
Slovenian 40 35 0 0 5
Ukrainian 265 260 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 80 80 0 0 0
Latvian 30 30 0 0 0
Lithuanian 50 50 0 0 0
Greek 45 45 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 1,025 985 0 30 15
Estonian 110 110 0 0 0
Finnish 785 755 0 20 15
Hungarian 135 120 0 15 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 70 55 0 5 0
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 65 60 0 10 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 55 50 0 10 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 200 190 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 180 175 0 5 5
Bengali 40 40 0 0 0
Gujarati 50 45 0 0 5
Hindi 40 35 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0 0
Korean 40 35 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 175 0 10 15
Chinese languages 200 175 0 10 20
Cantonese 30 30 0 5 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 120 0 5 15
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 60 55 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 45 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 20 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 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. 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 10
Other languages 5 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,180 645 5 530 5
English and French 605 110 5 485 0
English and non-official language 535 495 0 35 0
French and non-official language 35 30 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0

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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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