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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 Burlington, CY
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 174,250 157,725 115 15,170 1,240
Single responses 171,695 155,795 110 14,560 1,235
English 140,590 130,735 0 9,830 30
French 3,080 240 75 2,760 0
Non-official languages 28,025 24,820 30 1,970 1,205
Aboriginal languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 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 5 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 5,810 4,905 10 645 250
Italian 1,865 1,590 10 245 20
Portuguese 1,340 1,180 0 80 70
Romanian 575 420 0 125 25
Spanish 2,035 1,715 0 190 130
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,505 3,210 0 280 10
Dutch 1,230 1,150 0 80 0
Flemish 40 30 0 10 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 0
German 1,895 1,720 0 165 10
Yiddish 10 10 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 225 215 0 10 0
Danish 140 135 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 5 0
Swedish 60 55 0 5 0
Afrikaans 75 75 0 5 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 15 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 6,260 5,750 0 330 170
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 90 80 0 5 5
Bulgarian 95 85 0 10 5
Croatian 840 790 0 35 20
Czech 260 250 0 15 5
Macedonian 140 130 0 5 0
Polish 2,280 2,125 0 105 50
Russian 615 535 0 40 40
Serbian 750 665 0 45 40
Serbo-Croatian 105 90 0 10 5
Slovak 245 230 0 10 10
Slovenian 160 140 0 15 0
Ukrainian 660 615 0 35 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Baltic languages 235 220 0 15 0
Latvian 110 100 0 5 0
Lithuanian 130 120 0 10 0
Greek 390 345 0 35 10
Armenian 65 50 0 15 0
Albanian 90 80 0 5 10
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 845 775 0 60 15
Estonian 90 80 0 10 0
Finnish 85 80 0 5 0
Hungarian 670 620 0 40 15
Turkic languages 270 245 0 5 20
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 255 230 0 10 20
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,565 1,305 5 195 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 30 30 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,520 1,270 5 185 60
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 1,345 1,110 5 180 55
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 55 55 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,230 3,735 0 170 330
Indo-Aryan languages 3,515 3,090 0 140 285
Bengali 140 130 0 5 0
Gujarati 340 290 0 20 30
Hindi 445 400 0 30 15
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 35 30 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,675 1,425 0 45 210
Sindhi 55 45 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 90 90 0 5 0
Urdu 700 650 0 30 25
Nepali 30 20 0 0 5
Iranian languages 680 610 5 30 40
Kurdish 25 20 0 0 0
Pashto 95 85 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 565 500 5 30 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 325 300 0 15 15
Kannada 30 30 0 0 0
Malayalam 90 85 0 5 5
Tamil 160 145 0 10 10
Telugu 35 35 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 125 115 0 0 10
Korean 655 565 5 25 60
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,970 1,655 0 100 220
Chinese languages 1,960 1,645 5 100 215
Cantonese 395 325 0 20 45
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 555 465 0 30 60
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 990 830 0 50 110
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 70 65 0 5 0
Lao 25 20 0 5 5
Thai 45 45 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 305 270 0 15 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 5 0
Vietnamese 285 260 0 10 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,030 1,015 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malay 35 40 0 0 0
Pampango 10 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 880 865 0 10 5
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. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 160 130 0 30 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 105 80 5 30 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 40 40 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 10 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creoles 20 10 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 35 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 2,555 1,930 5 610 10
English and French 455 80 0 375 0
English and non-official language 1,950 1,800 0 150 5
French and non-official language 95 45 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 55 10 0 40 0

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

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