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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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 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 Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-OuestFootnote 1
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 41,040 37,040 50 3,715 235
Single responses 40,500 36,585 50 3,640 230
English 31,375 28,955 0 2,415 5
French 1,075 80 40 955 0
Non-official languages 8,040 7,550 5 265 225
Aboriginal languages 5,485 5,270 5 55 160
Algonquian languages 150 140 0 5 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 135 130 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 130 135 0 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 15 10 0 5 0
Athapaskan languages 4,605 4,410 0 35 155
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 450 435 0 5 5
Tlicho (Dogrib) 1,965 1,875 0 10 80
Gwich'in 250 250 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 200 190 0 0 10
South Slavey 400 380 0 5 10
Slavey, n.o.s. 1,340 1,280 5 15 45
Sarcee 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 705 690 0 10 5
Inuktitut 185 180 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun 85 90 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 405 400 0 0 5
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 180 145 0 35 5
Italian 50 35 0 10 0
Portuguese 25 15 0 10 0
Romanian 20 15 0 5 0
Spanish 90 75 0 10 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 270 225 0 40 5
Dutch 50 45 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 185 150 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 215 190 0 10 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 5 0
Russian 40 35 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 10 15 0 0 0
Armenian 75 70 0 0 5
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 30 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 230 190 0 30 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 5 0
Somali 35 35 0 0 0
Semitic languages 175 140 0 25 5
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 150 115 0 30 10
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 185 165 0 15 0
Indo-Aryan languages 160 150 0 5 0
Bengali 35 35 0 5 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 35 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 5 5
Tamil 20 20 0 5 0
Telugu 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0 0
Korean 15 15 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 240 225 0 5 10
Chinese languages 235 220 0 10 10
Cantonese 85 80 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 30 0 5 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 105 100 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 155 130 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 5 0
Vietnamese 155 130 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 675 655 0 10 15
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 5
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 545 530 0 10 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 100 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 95 85 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 45 40 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 25 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 40 10 0 30 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. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 540 460 0 80 0
English and French 75 10 0 60 0
English and non-official language 450 435 0 10 0
French and non-official language 15 15 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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