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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Other Languages Spoken Regularly at Home (9) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other languages spoken regularly at home and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Williams Lake
Detailed mother tongue (232) Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Total - Other language spoken regularly at home None English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed mother tongue 18,300 17,405 215 95 560 0 0 15 0
Single responses 18,170 17,310 210 95 530 0 0 15 0
English 16,405 16,150 5 60 180 0 0 5 0
French 275 220 15 35 0 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 1,495 940 185 0 355 0 0 10 0
Aboriginal languages 295 150 15 0 125 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 155 95 5 0 50 0 0 0 0
Carrier 20 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 135 85 5 5 40 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 120 45 10 0 65 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 115 40 10 0 65 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 75 45 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Italian 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 25 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Spanish 30 15 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 445 310 40 0 95 0 0 5 0
Dutch 65 45 5 0 15 0 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 310 215 15 0 75 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 25 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 10 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 95 65 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 25 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 395 255 85 0 45 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 390 255 85 0 45 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 370 240 80 0 45 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 70 40 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 70 40 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 5 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 25 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 50 25 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 25 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 130 90 5 0 30 0 0 0 0
English and French 25 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 105 65 5 0 30 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011041.

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