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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 Waterloo, CY
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 97,980 87,915 50 8,735 1,285
Single responses 96,405 86,740 45 8,350 1,270
English 71,425 65,620 0 5,785 15
French 1,065 85 25 955 5
Non-official languages 23,920 21,035 20 1,615 1,250
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,560 2,125 5 330 100
Italian 320 270 0 45 10
Portuguese 420 360 0 40 20
Romanian 730 560 0 135 30
Spanish 1,090 935 0 110 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,295 3,015 0 275 10
Dutch 370 325 0 45 0
Flemish 25 15 0 5 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 0
German 2,735 2,520 0 210 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 120 105 0 10 0
Danish 65 60 0 5 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 5 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,495 3,050 0 305 140
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 40 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 45 0 10 0
Croatian 255 240 0 5 10
Czech 150 125 0 25 5
Macedonian 40 35 0 5 5
Polish 1,060 960 0 80 25
Russian 675 545 0 75 60
Serbian 745 640 0 70 40
Serbo-Croatian 100 85 0 15 0
Slovak 100 90 0 10 0
Slovenian 40 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 180 160 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 5
Baltic languages 50 50 0 5 5
Latvian 25 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 5 0
Greek 350 310 0 35 5
Armenian 115 100 0 5 10
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 10 5 0 5 0
Finno-Ugric languages 390 365 0 20 10
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0 0
Hungarian 315 290 0 15 5
Turkic languages 255 225 5 15 15
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 0
Turkish 225 195 0 15 20
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,550 1,285 0 175 90
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 135 105 0 20 10
Oromo 20 10 0 5 0
Somali 115 95 0 10 5
Semitic languages 1,410 1,175 0 155 80
Amharic 60 55 0 5 5
Arabic 1,260 1,040 5 140 75
Hebrew 50 40 0 10 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,870 3,490 0 175 210
Indo-Aryan languages 2,745 2,495 0 105 135
Bengali 240 225 0 10 5
Gujarati 330 295 0 15 20
Hindi 440 415 0 15 10
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 65 65 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 770 660 0 35 75
Sindhi 45 45 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 90 0 5 5
Urdu 730 685 0 25 25
Nepali 5 5 0 0 5
Iranian languages 1,105 970 0 65 70
Kurdish 65 60 0 5 5
Pashto 65 60 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 980 850 0 60 65
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 495 465 0 15 10
Kannada 30 25 0 5 0
Malayalam 80 80 0 0 0
Tamil 240 220 0 15 5
Telugu 145 135 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Japanese 145 120 0 0 25
Korean 875 775 0 35 65
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,280 4,615 5 165 495
Chinese languages 5,275 4,610 5 165 500
Cantonese 630 570 0 20 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 10 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 1,890 1,605 0 60 220
Shanghainese 5 10 0 0 0
Taiwanese 50 45 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,680 2,360 5 85 230
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 145 130 0 5 10
Lao 120 105 0 5 5
Thai 25 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 400 340 0 20 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 390 325 0 20 35
Malayo-Polynesian languages 320 315 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 75 75 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 235 235 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 100 5 10 5
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 55 0 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 25 25 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 110 95 0 5 10
Multiple responses 1,580 1,180 5 380 15
English and French 235 35 5 200 0
English and non-official language 1,245 1,110 0 120 15
French and non-official language 60 25 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 30 0

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

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