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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Sherbrooke
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 152,445 2,020 85,820 63,810 795
Single responses 150,600 1,975 85,360 62,485 785
English 6,240 1,525 85 4,615 0
French 135,790 10 81,185 54,575 10
Non-official languages 8,580 435 4,085 3,300 770
Aboriginal languages 5 5 5 5 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 5 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. 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 5 0 0 5 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 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 5 0 5 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 5 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,165 55 1,790 1,100 215
Italian 140 0 50 90 5
Portuguese 165 0 60 95 5
Romanian 135 5 50 80 0
Spanish 2,715 45 1,635 825 205
Catalan 10 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 180 30 15 125 0
Dutch 35 10 0 30 0
Flemish 10 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 115 25 15 80 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 0 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,355 20 680 580 80
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 140 0 100 35 5
Bulgarian 25 0 10 15 0
Croatian 60 0 25 30 5
Czech 35 0 5 25 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 110 5 30 70 0
Russian 115 5 50 45 10
Serbian 430 5 225 170 35
Serbo-Croatian 390 5 215 150 20
Slovak 20 0 10 10 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 15 0 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 5 0
Baltic languages 5 0 5 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 5 0 0
Greek 60 0 5 55 5
Armenian 10 0 0 10 0
Albanian 10 0 5 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 5 10 20 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 30 0 10 15 0
Turkic languages 40 5 25 15 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 0 20 15 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,330 30 605 565 130
Berber languages (Kabyle) 55 0 35 15 0
Cushitic languages 75 0 40 30 5
Oromo 65 0 35 20 0
Somali 10 0 5 5 0
Semitic languages 1,170 30 515 505 120
Amharic 5 0 0 5 0
Arabic 1,155 30 510 495 120
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 35 0 15 15 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,020 135 310 310 265
Indo-Aryan languages 265 55 30 80 100
Bengali 5 0 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 15 5 0 10 0
Nepali 220 35 20 60 100
Iranian languages 750 80 275 230 170
Kurdish 15 0 15 5 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 725 75 265 225 165
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 0 0 5 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 10 5 10 0
Korean 35 15 5 10 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 245 90 40 85 30
Chinese languages 245 90 40 85 30
Cantonese 20 5 0 10 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 20 15 20 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 165 65 20 60 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 25 5 5 15 0
Lao 15 0 5 10 0
Thai 5 5 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 215 10 95 90 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 5 30 20 5
Vietnamese 155 10 65 70 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 55 10 20 30 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 5 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 5 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 25 0 20 10 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 615 10 385 215 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 485 5 315 155 10
Lingala 45 0 35 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 155 0 95 55 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 65 0 30 30 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 135 0 105 25 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 5 45 25 5
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 40 0 15 25 0
Bamanankan 15 0 10 10 0
Ewe 20 0 15 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 0 30 25 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 10 0
Creoles 105 0 60 45 0
Non-verbal languages 15 0 15 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,850 50 460 1,330 15
English and French 1,125 15 85 1,025 0
English and non-official language 100 30 10 55 5
French and non-official language 550 5 360 185 10
English, French and non-official language 70 0 10 55 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011033.

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