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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 Matawinie^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	49,170	515	32,440	15,975	240
Single responses	48,740	505	32,375	15,620	235
English	1,975	375	50	1,550	0
French	43,985	5	30,400	13,570	0
Non-official languages	2,775	125	1,920	490	235
Aboriginal languages	2,030	0	1,740	80	210
Algonquian languages	2,025	0	1,740	75	205
Algonquin	0	0	5	0	0
Atikamekw	2,015	0	1,735	70	210
Blackfoot	5	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	5	0	5	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0	5	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	5	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	250	5	90	150	5
Italian	130	5	30	95	0
Portuguese	25	0	5	15	0
Romanian	15	0	5	10	0
Spanish	85	5	50	30	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	95	30	5	60	0
Dutch	5	0	0	5	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	85	30	5	45	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	5	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	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	230	50	50	125	10
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	0	0	5	0
Croatian	10	0	10	0	0
Czech	20	5	10	10	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	110	20	20	70	5
Russian	50	15	10	25	5
Serbian	0	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	5	0	5	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	0	0	5	0
Ukrainian	20	5	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	5	0	10	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	10	5	0	5	0
Greek	20	0	0	25	0
Armenian	5	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	25	10	10	5	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	5	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	20	10	5	5	5
Turkic languages	5	0	0	0	5
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	0	5	5	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	20	0	10	10	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	5	0	0
Oromo	5	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	25	0	10	10	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	20	0	10	10	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	10	0	0	0	5
Indo-Aryan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	5	0	5	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	5	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	5	0	0	0	5
Kurdish	5	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	0	0	5	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	5	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	5	5	0	0	0
Korean	5	0	0	5	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	20	10	0	5	0
Chinese languages	20	10	0	5	0
Cantonese	5	0	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	5	5	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	10	0	0	10	5
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	15	0	5	5	0
Lao	10	0	5	5	0
Thai	5	0	5	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	0	0	5	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	10	5	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	5	5	0	5	0
Bikol	0	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	10	0	0	5	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0	0
Wolof	10	0	0	5	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.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	10	0	0	5	0
Non-verbal languages	5	0	5	0	5
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	10	0	5	0	5
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	430	5	65	355	0
English and French	315	0	30	285	0
English and non-official language	35	5	0	30	0
French and non-official language	65	0	35	30	5
English, French and non-official language	15	0	0	15	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-XCB2011035.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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