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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 Regina, CYFootnote 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 190,865 178,140 140 11,145 1,440
Single responses 188,330 176,055 135 10,705 1,430
English 162,475 154,395 5 8,035 40
French 2,355 345 90 1,920 0
Non-official languages 23,500 21,320 35 755 1,390
Aboriginal languages 440 435 0 5 5
Algonquian languages 370 360 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 275 270 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 270 265 0 5 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 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 95 90 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 15 10 0 5 0
Athapaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 5 5 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. 5 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 40 40 0 0 0
Dakota 25 25 0 0 0
Stoney 5 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 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 5 5 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 5 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 1,665 1,435 5 170 55
Italian 370 330 0 30 5
Portuguese 80 65 0 10 0
Romanian 280 255 0 25 5
Spanish 930 785 0 105 40
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,225 3,120 0 95 10
Dutch 270 255 0 15 0
Flemish 10 10 0 5 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 2,700 2,620 0 70 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 115 110 0 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 120 115 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,155 2,975 5 75 100
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 65 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 120 105 0 5 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 5
Polish 470 440 0 20 5
Russian 665 595 0 15 50
Serbian 160 150 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 35 40 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 5 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,510 1,460 0 20 30
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Latvian 10 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 485 465 0 15 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 60 55 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 475 455 0 20 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 450 430 0 15 0
Turkic languages 85 75 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 70 65 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,230 1,070 5 60 105
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 315 275 0 5 35
Oromo 40 30 0 0 10
Somali 275 240 0 0 30
Semitic languages 910 790 0 50 65
Amharic 105 105 0 5 0
Arabic 625 525 5 50 55
Hebrew 40 35 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 130 120 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,845 3,440 5 100 315
Indo-Aryan languages 3,250 2,915 0 75 265
Bengali 385 345 0 25 15
Gujarati 285 260 0 5 20
Hindi 300 285 0 5 10
Konkani 10 10 0 5 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 990 895 0 15 80
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 1,050 960 0 25 70
Nepali 175 105 0 0 65
Iranian languages 540 475 0 25 45
Kurdish 50 45 0 0 0
Pashto 140 115 0 10 15
Persian (Farsi) 355 315 0 10 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 265 260 0 0 5
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 70 0 0 0
Tamil 105 100 0 0 0
Telugu 75 70 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 75 65 0 0 5
Korean 430 355 0 10 65
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,295 2,705 5 65 520
Chinese languages 2,910 2,440 5 60 405
Cantonese 555 450 0 10 85
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 495 420 0 15 70
Shanghainese 10 5 0 0 5
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,825 1,545 5 40 240
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 35 25 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 350 235 0 0 115
Tai languages 210 185 0 10 15
Lao 155 140 0 10 5
Thai 60 55 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 960 820 5 20 110
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 40 0 0 5
Vietnamese 910 780 5 25 105
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,875 2,820 0 15 35
Bisayan languages 175 170 0 0 0
Ilocano 175 170 0 5 5
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 25 25 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,440 2,400 0 15 30
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 445 340 15 70 10
Akan (Twi) 30 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 210 145 15 40 15
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 5 0 15 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 10 0 5 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 70 45 10 15 0
Ganda 20 20 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 5 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 45 45 0 0 0
Wolof 15 0 0 15 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 15 0 0 0
Ga 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 95 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 140 135 0 5 0
Creoles 25 15 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 25 10 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 65 50 0 0 15
Multiple responses 2,535 2,080 5 440 15
English and French 365 80 5 280 0
English and non-official language 2,015 1,935 0 65 10
French and non-official language 105 55 5 45 5
English, French and non-official language 55 10 0 45 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

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