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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 Thunder Bay
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 144,290 131,270 310 12,120 590
Single responses 142,620 130,025 305 11,700 585
English 121,840 115,170 0 6,645 25
French 5,270 430 295 4,540 0
Non-official languages 15,510 14,425 10 520 560
Aboriginal languages 1,830 1,775 0 20 35
Algonquian languages 1,805 1,745 5 20 35
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 110 105 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 105 105 0 0 5
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 5 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 1,315 1,280 0 20 20
Oji-Cree 370 360 0 0 10
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 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 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. 20 20 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,150 3,745 0 175 230
Italian 3,310 3,015 0 110 180
Portuguese 445 395 0 15 35
Romanian 70 55 0 5 5
Spanish 330 280 0 35 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,630 1,565 0 65 5
Dutch 450 430 0 15 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 10 15 0 5 0
German 995 945 0 45 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 165 165 0 0 0
Danish 85 85 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,930 2,790 5 80 55
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 320 305 0 15 5
Czech 55 55 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 1,070 1,020 0 20 30
Russian 120 100 0 10 0
Serbian 50 50 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 210 200 0 5 0
Slovenian 105 100 0 0 0
Ukrainian 945 910 0 20 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Baltic languages 45 40 0 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 160 150 0 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 2,950 2,780 0 85 85
Estonian 65 60 0 5 0
Finnish 2,720 2,565 5 70 80
Hungarian 165 155 0 10 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 5 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 165 130 0 30 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 155 125 0 25 5
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 130 105 0 25 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 375 335 0 20 20
Indo-Aryan languages 270 245 0 15 15
Bengali 35 30 0 0 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 70 65 0 0 0
Nepali 35 30 0 5 0
Iranian languages 100 90 0 10 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 85 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 45 0 5 0
Korean 25 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 605 510 5 15 80
Chinese languages 445 375 5 15 55
Cantonese 85 65 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 65 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 240 0 5 35
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 35 30 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 130 100 0 0 25
Tai languages 20 10 0 5 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 125 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 130 120 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 235 235 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 185 185 0 0 0
Bikol 0 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 25 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 5 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 25 20 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 40 10 0 10 20
American Sign Language 20 10 0 10 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0 15
Other languages 35 25 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,670 1,250 5 415 5
English and French 435 100 0 335 0
English and non-official language 1,130 1,080 0 40 5
French and non-official language 85 55 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 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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