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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 Division No. 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 260,005 243,870 45 15,755 335
Single responses 259,335 243,465 45 15,490 330
English 253,595 239,190 5 14,370 30
French 990 185 30 780 0
Non-official languages 4,745 4,090 10 340 305
Aboriginal languages 55 50 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 20 20 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 5 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 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Inuktitut 25 20 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 525 420 0 80 20
Italian 60 45 0 15 0
Portuguese 65 50 0 15 0
Romanian 35 20 0 10 5
Spanish 370 305 0 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 425 355 0 65 0
Dutch 60 50 0 10 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 5 0
German 220 175 0 45 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 115 105 0 10 0
Danish 35 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 35 35 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 435 375 0 35 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 80 75 0 5 5
Russian 180 160 0 15 10
Serbian 15 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 0 0 5
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 5 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 45 35 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 5 20
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 40 40 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 5
Turkish 25 25 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 455 375 0 30 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Oromo 20 20 0 5 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 435 360 0 30 45
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 395 325 0 30 40
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 775 705 0 25 50
Indo-Aryan languages 640 580 0 15 40
Bengali 190 180 0 5 5
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 0
Hindi 75 75 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 60 0 5 10
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 40 0 0 0
Urdu 140 125 0 10 5
Nepali 50 35 0 0 10
Iranian languages 130 115 0 5 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 90 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 155 145 0 5 0
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 5
Tamil 65 65 0 0 0
Telugu 35 30 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 5 5
Korean 65 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,075 975 0 30 70
Chinese languages 1,055 955 0 30 70
Cantonese 110 90 0 10 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 160 145 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 755 695 0 15 45
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 165 160 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 120 120 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 105 75 5 20 10
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 40 5 20 5
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 5 10 0 5 0
Swahili 30 10 0 10 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 10 5 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 0 5
Creoles 10 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 100 45 0 0 45
American Sign Language 50 35 0 0 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 50 15 0 0 30
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 675 405 0 265 5
English and French 250 45 0 200 0
English and non-official language 385 340 0 40 5
French and non-official language 30 15 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0

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

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