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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 Alberni-Clayoquot^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	30,835	28,990	5	1,765	75
Single responses	30,580	28,790	5	1,705	75
English	27,405	26,235	0	1,170	5
French	575	120	5	450	0
Non-official languages	2,600	2,435	0	95	70
Aboriginal languages	240	240	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	5	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	5	5	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Michif	5	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.	5	5	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	5	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0
Halkomelem	5	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	10	5	0	0	0
Gitksan	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	185	190	0	0	0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)	175	175	0	0	0
Haisla	0	0	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	10	10	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	5	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages	0	5	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.	40	35	0	0	0
Romance languages	300	275	0	20	5
Italian	205	195	0	10	0
Portuguese	5	5	0	0	0
Romanian	5	5	0	0	0
Spanish	80	65	0	10	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	965	920	0	40	5
Dutch	330	320	5	10	0
Flemish	5	5	0	0	0
Frisian	5	5	0	0	0
German	475	455	0	25	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	115	110	0	5	0
Danish	55	55	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	35	35	0	5	0
Swedish	25	20	0	0	0
Afrikaans	30	25	0	0	5
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	5	0	5	0
Gaelic languages	5	5	0	5	0
Welsh	5	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	310	295	0	10	5
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	85	85	0	0	0
Czech	20	15	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	55	45	0	5	0
Russian	25	25	0	5	0
Serbian	20	20	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	5	0	0	0
Slovak	10	10	0	0	0
Slovenian	40	40	0	0	0
Ukrainian	60	55	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	5	0	5	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0	0	0
Greek	10	5	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	115	105	0	10	0
Estonian	5	5	0	0	0
Finnish	50	50	0	0	0
Hungarian	60	55	0	5	0
Turkic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	5	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	5	5	0	0	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	5	5	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	5	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	5	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	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	345	305	0	5	30
Indo-Aryan languages	340	300	0	10	30
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	15	15	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	5	5	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	315	275	0	10	30
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	5	10	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	5	10	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	10	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	20	15	0	0	0
Korean	25	20	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	125	110	0	5	15
Chinese languages	125	110	0	0	15
Cantonese	40	30	0	0	5
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	15	10	0	5	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	5	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	70	65	0	0	5
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	0	5	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	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	95	90	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	10	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	75	75	0	5	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Fijian	5	5	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	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	0	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	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.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	10	5	0	0	5
American Sign Language	5	5	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	5	5
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	255	200	0	60	0
English and French	80	35	0	45	0
English and non-official language	160	155	0	10	0
French and non-official language	15	15	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	0	5	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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