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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 Powell River, 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 12,975 12,190 5 755 20
Single responses 12,865 12,120 0 725 20
English 11,475 11,065 0 410 0
French 325 55 0 265 0
Non-official languages 1,065 1,000 0 45 20
Aboriginal languages 10 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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. 5 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 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 10 10 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. 10 10 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 305 290 0 10 5
Italian 270 255 0 10 5
Portuguese 5 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 35 30 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 375 350 0 25 0
Dutch 135 130 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 200 180 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 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 100 100 0 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 35 35 0 5 0
Russian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 15 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 35 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 40 40 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 40 40 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 40 35 0 5 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 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 10 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 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 15 10 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 65 55 0 0 10
Chinese languages 65 55 0 5 10
Cantonese 25 20 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 5 0
Thai 5 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 40 45 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 0 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) 30 35 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 105 70 0 35 0
English and French 30 10 0 20 0
English and non-official language 70 65 0 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0

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

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