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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 Fort Erie, T
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 29,665 28,150 15 1,385 125
Single responses 29,395 27,960 15 1,310 120
English 26,430 25,715 5 705 5
French 530 60 5 465 0
Non-official languages 2,440 2,185 5 135 115
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 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 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 10 10 0 0 0
Mohawk 10 10 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 825 750 5 30 45
Italian 450 415 0 10 15
Portuguese 65 60 0 5 0
Romanian 15 10 0 5 0
Spanish 300 260 0 15 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 475 455 0 20 0
Dutch 145 140 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 315 300 0 15 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 290 280 0 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 50 50 0 5 0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 85 80 0 5 0
Russian 35 35 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 5
Greek 50 50 0 5 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 80 75 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 65 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 50 45 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 55 45 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 20 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 75 70 0 5 5
Indo-Aryan languages 35 30 0 5 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0 5
Gujarati 15 10 0 5 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 5 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 10 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 45 35 0 0 5
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 285 240 0 0 45
Chinese languages 285 240 0 0 40
Cantonese 75 70 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 25 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 145 0 0 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 45 40 0 0 5
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 25 15 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 15 0 10 5
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 65 10 5 45 5
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 270 190 0 80 0
English and French 50 10 0 40 0
English and non-official language 165 155 0 10 0
French and non-official language 45 15 5 25 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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

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