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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 Peterborough
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 133,500 124,680 30 8,515 265
Single responses 132,750 124,195 35 8,265 260
English 124,320 117,735 5 6,555 30
French 1,430 170 25 1,240 0
Non-official languages 7,000 6,295 5 465 230
Aboriginal languages 105 100 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 95 95 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 80 80 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 5 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) 5 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 5 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 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 940 830 0 95 15
Italian 425 375 0 40 5
Portuguese 125 110 0 10 0
Romanian 60 45 0 15 5
Spanish 335 300 0 30 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,055 1,920 0 130 10
Dutch 770 730 0 35 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 1,125 1,045 0 75 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 110 105 0 0 0
Danish 55 50 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0 0
Swedish 35 30 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,040 935 0 85 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0 0
Croatian 40 35 0 0 0
Czech 90 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 25 20 0 5 0
Polish 540 485 0 45 10
Russian 120 100 0 15 5
Serbian 20 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 5 0
Ukrainian 135 120 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 5 0
Greek 105 95 0 10 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 90 80 0 5 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 290 260 0 30 5
Estonian 40 35 0 0 0
Finnish 110 95 0 10 0
Hungarian 145 125 0 15 5
Turkic languages 5 10 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 230 195 0 25 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 215 180 0 20 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 160 130 0 20 10
Hebrew 10 10 0 5 0
Maltese 35 35 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 680 600 5 30 45
Indo-Aryan languages 535 470 0 20 40
Bengali 40 35 0 5 0
Gujarati 175 150 5 5 15
Hindi 80 70 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 80 65 0 5 10
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 120 110 0 0 5
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 145 130 0 10 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 25 20 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 100 95 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 5
Tamil 60 60 0 5 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0 0
Korean 205 190 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 570 490 0 15 60
Chinese languages 545 470 0 20 55
Cantonese 95 85 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 95 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 335 280 0 10 45
Tibetan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 20 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 205 175 0 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 65 0 0 0
Vietnamese 135 110 0 10 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 155 150 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 115 0 5 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 60 50 5 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 45 35 0 5 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 40 15 0 0 25
American Sign Language 15 5 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0 15
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 745 490 0 250 0
English and French 250 55 0 195 0
English and non-official language 445 400 0 40 0
French and non-official language 35 25 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 0

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

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