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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 T5CFootnote 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 15,825 14,570 30 885 335
Single responses 15,415 14,225 30 825 335
English 10,805 10,370 0 425 10
French 330 40 20 265 5
Non-official languages 4,285 3,815 5 140 325
Aboriginal languages 45 45 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 40 40 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 40 40 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 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 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 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 815 720 5 40 50
Italian 275 260 0 10 15
Portuguese 190 165 0 5 15
Romanian 25 20 0 5 0
Spanish 325 280 5 20 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 290 285 0 0 0
Dutch 65 65 0 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 205 200 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 885 855 0 15 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 30 30 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 150 140 0 0 10
Russian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 560 550 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 30 25 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 55 0 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 55 50 0 5 0
Turkic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 835 735 0 30 70
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 330 290 5 5 35
Oromo 20 15 0 0 0
Somali 310 270 0 5 30
Semitic languages 500 440 0 25 35
Amharic 35 25 0 5 0
Arabic 420 370 0 20 30
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 30 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 165 150 0 0 15
Indo-Aryan languages 130 120 0 5 10
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 5
Hindi 55 55 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 35 30 0 0 10
Sindhi 15 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 15 15 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 35 30 0 0 5
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 530 400 0 5 125
Chinese languages 530 400 0 5 115
Cantonese 270 200 0 0 65
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 215 165 0 5 45
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 185 145 0 5 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 165 130 0 0 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 155 155 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 130 130 0 0 5
Bikol 5 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 130 95 0 20 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 45 0 15 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 5 0 10 5
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 35 25 0 5 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 0 0
Creoles 40 25 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 405 345 0 60 0
English and French 40 10 0 30 0
English and non-official language 335 325 0 10 0
French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 5 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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