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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 Wood Buffalo, SMFootnote 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 65,515 60,330 100 4,700 385
Single responses 64,205 59,280 95 4,455 375
English 52,165 49,820 5 2,335 10
French 1,790 90 75 1,620 0
Non-official languages 10,245 9,375 10 500 365
Aboriginal languages 425 410 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 280 270 0 5 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 270 260 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 270 260 0 5 5
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 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 5 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 135 130 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 135 130 0 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,140 985 0 100 55
Italian 50 40 0 10 0
Portuguese 110 95 0 10 0
Romanian 85 65 0 20 0
Spanish 885 785 0 60 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 430 400 0 25 0
Dutch 85 75 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 195 180 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 5 0
Afrikaans 135 125 0 0 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 475 430 5 35 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 130 120 0 10 0
Russian 95 90 0 5 5
Serbian 55 45 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 5 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 55 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 10 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 50 45 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 40 40 0 5 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,590 1,380 5 145 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 615 585 0 20 15
Oromo 40 40 0 5 0
Somali 575 545 0 20 15
Semitic languages 960 790 10 120 45
Amharic 150 135 0 5 0
Arabic 760 600 10 110 40
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 35 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,845 2,625 0 75 140
Indo-Aryan languages 2,650 2,460 0 55 135
Bengali 195 185 0 10 5
Gujarati 855 770 0 15 70
Hindi 335 325 0 10 5
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 45 45 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 280 0 5 10
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 0 0
Urdu 835 780 0 20 35
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 175 150 0 15 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 40 35 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 130 110 0 20 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 345 325 0 10 10
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 140 0 5 10
Tamil 140 135 0 0 5
Telugu 45 40 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 5 0
Korean 95 85 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 675 615 0 10 45
Chinese languages 665 605 0 10 45
Cantonese 100 90 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 160 145 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 355 0 5 25
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 30 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 30 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,545 1,520 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 5 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,395 1,380 0 10 10
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 340 310 0 30 5
Akan (Twi) 45 45 0 0 0
Bantu languages 175 155 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 55 55 0 0 0
Swahili 30 20 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 75 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 25 25 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 90 80 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 10 0
Creoles 30 10 0 20 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,315 1,050 5 250 15
English and French 210 45 5 165 0
English and non-official language 1,035 985 0 45 10
French and non-official language 45 10 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

In 2006, the population and/or dwelling counts for this census subdivision were found to be incorrect. Since it is not possible to make changes to the 2006 Census data presented in these tables, the 2006 data should be used with caution. For further details, please refer to the Population and dwelling count amendments, 2011 Census.

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

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