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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 and Forward Sortation Areas, 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 L8RFootnote 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 9,955 8,650 25 615 665
Single responses 9,670 8,415 15 575 660
English 5,510 5,220 0 290 10
French 115 15 5 95 0
Non-official languages 4,040 3,185 15 190 655
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 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. 0 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 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 5 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 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 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 955 695 5 45 210
Italian 265 195 0 10 55
Portuguese 450 295 5 20 130
Romanian 20 10 0 5 5
Spanish 215 185 0 5 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 85 75 0 5 0
Dutch 35 35 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 40 35 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 305 235 0 15 55
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 90 75 0 0 15
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 0 5
Russian 60 40 0 5 20
Serbian 25 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 35 20 0 0 10
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 45 35 0 0 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 90 75 0 0 15
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 145 110 0 0 30
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 135 100 0 0 30
Turkic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 360 315 5 10 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 185 165 0 5 20
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 175 155 0 0 15
Semitic languages 175 150 5 5 15
Amharic 20 15 0 0 5
Arabic 120 105 0 5 10
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 5 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 485 430 0 25 30
Indo-Aryan languages 380 340 0 20 20
Bengali 175 150 0 10 15
Gujarati 60 60 0 0 5
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 50 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 100 85 0 5 10
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 5
Pashto 10 5 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 75 70 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 40 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 40 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 650 510 0 5 130
Chinese languages 580 455 0 5 125
Cantonese 130 95 0 0 35
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 125 115 0 0 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 320 245 0 5 65
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 70 55 0 0 10
Tai languages 20 10 0 0 10
Lao 10 5 0 0 5
Thai 10 5 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 505 390 5 10 105
Khmer (Cambodian) 50 45 0 0 5
Vietnamese 455 350 0 10 95
Malayo-Polynesian languages 100 100 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 0 0 0
Bikol 5 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 30 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 25 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 20 10 0 10 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 10 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. 5 0 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 10 0 10 0
Creoles 45 15 5 25 5
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 290 235 5 35 5
English and French 25 10 0 15 0
English and non-official language 195 180 0 10 5
French and non-official language 65 40 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 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-XCB2011032.


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