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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

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

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Nanaimo
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 144,920 135,215 55 9,235 420
Single responses 143,680 134,330 50 8,885 420
English 129,225 122,795 5 6,420 15
French 2,105 295 35 1,770 0
Non-official languages 12,355 11,245 10 700 400
Aboriginal languages 95 90 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 20 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 20 20 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 20 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 10 10 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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. 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 15 10 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 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 20 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 10 10 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 10 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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. 15 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,075 935 5 125 15
Italian 375 335 0 40 0
Portuguese 125 105 0 15 5
Romanian 55 40 0 10 0
Spanish 520 455 0 60 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,425 4,085 0 330 5
Dutch 1,135 1,025 0 105 0
Flemish 20 10 0 10 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 2,400 2,225 0 175 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 730 700 0 35 0
Danish 405 385 0 20 0
Icelandic 15 20 0 0 0
Norwegian 150 150 0 5 0
Swedish 155 150 0 5 0
Afrikaans 110 100 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Welsh 20 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,505 1,400 0 75 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 5
Croatian 205 195 0 5 10
Czech 175 160 0 10 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 5
Polish 320 290 0 25 5
Russian 235 210 0 10 10
Serbian 55 50 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 65 65 0 0 5
Slovenian 40 40 0 5 0
Ukrainian 335 320 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 90 80 0 10 5
Armenian 5 5 0 5 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 480 455 0 25 5
Estonian 25 20 0 0 0
Finnish 160 155 0 5 0
Hungarian 290 275 0 15 5
Turkic languages 30 25 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 160 140 0 20 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 150 130 0 20 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 120 95 0 20 5
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,290 1,150 5 30 110
Indo-Aryan languages 1,175 1,040 0 25 105
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 5 0
Hindi 95 85 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 965 845 0 15 100
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 5
Iranian languages 115 105 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 105 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 5 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 290 280 5 5 10
Korean 350 310 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,225 1,100 0 15 110
Chinese languages 1,215 1,090 0 15 105
Cantonese 225 205 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 340 285 5 10 40
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 25 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 610 560 0 5 45
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 80 75 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 75 75 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 435 375 0 15 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 5 15
Vietnamese 350 300 0 15 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 545 535 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 460 445 0 5 10
Bikol 0 5 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. 25 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 60 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 25 0 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 30 10 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,240 880 5 350 5
English and French 340 95 0 245 0
English and non-official language 810 745 0 55 5
French and non-official language 55 25 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 35 15 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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