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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 Waterloo, 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 97,980 87,915 50 8,730 1,285
Single responses 96,405 86,740 45 8,350 1,270
English 71,425 65,620 0 5,785 20
French 1,060 80 25 950 0
Non-official languages 23,920 21,035 15 1,615 1,250
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 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 5 0 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 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 5 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 2,560 2,125 5 330 100
Italian 320 275 0 45 5
Portuguese 420 360 0 40 20
Romanian 730 560 5 135 30
Spanish 1,090 935 5 110 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,295 3,010 0 275 10
Dutch 370 320 0 45 0
Flemish 25 15 0 5 0
Frisian 10 15 0 0 0
German 2,740 2,520 0 215 10
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 120 110 0 10 0
Danish 65 60 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 5 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,500 3,055 0 305 140
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 5 5
Bulgarian 55 45 0 5 0
Croatian 255 240 0 10 5
Czech 155 130 0 25 5
Macedonian 45 35 0 5 0
Polish 1,060 960 0 80 20
Russian 680 550 5 70 55
Serbian 750 635 0 65 40
Serbo-Croatian 100 85 0 15 0
Slovak 105 90 0 5 0
Slovenian 40 40 0 5 0
Ukrainian 180 160 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 5
Baltic languages 55 45 0 5 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 30 25 0 0 0
Greek 355 315 0 35 10
Armenian 115 95 0 5 10
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 10 5 0 5 0
Finno-Ugric languages 385 360 0 15 5
Estonian 30 30 0 5 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0 0
Hungarian 315 295 0 15 5
Turkic languages 255 225 5 15 15
Azerbaijani 25 25 0 0 0
Turkish 225 195 0 15 15
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,550 1,280 0 175 90
Berber languages (Kabyle) 10 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 135 110 0 20 10
Oromo 15 10 0 5 0
Somali 120 100 0 10 10
Semitic languages 1,410 1,175 5 155 80
Amharic 60 55 0 5 5
Arabic 1,255 1,040 5 140 80
Hebrew 45 40 0 10 0
Maltese 10 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,875 3,490 0 170 210
Indo-Aryan languages 2,740 2,495 0 110 140
Bengali 245 230 0 10 5
Gujarati 335 295 0 15 20
Hindi 440 415 0 15 15
Konkani 10 5 0 0 0
Marathi 65 60 0 5 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 770 660 0 35 80
Sindhi 45 45 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 90 0 5 5
Urdu 735 685 0 25 20
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 1,105 975 0 65 70
Kurdish 65 60 0 0 0
Pashto 65 60 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 980 855 0 60 60
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 495 465 0 20 10
Kannada 30 25 0 5 0
Malayalam 80 80 0 5 0
Tamil 240 225 0 10 5
Telugu 145 140 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Japanese 150 120 0 5 25
Korean 875 775 0 35 65
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,285 4,615 5 165 495
Chinese languages 5,275 4,605 5 165 495
Cantonese 630 570 0 20 40
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 10 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,885 1,605 5 60 220
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 50 40 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,680 2,360 5 85 230
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 140 125 0 5 10
Lao 120 105 0 5 5
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 400 340 0 25 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 390 325 0 25 35
Malayo-Polynesian languages 320 315 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 70 70 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 240 235 5 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 110 100 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 55 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 5
Swahili 25 20 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 5 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 0
Other languages 105 95 0 5 5
Multiple responses 1,575 1,175 5 380 15
English and French 235 30 0 200 0
English and non-official language 1,245 1,115 0 115 15
French and non-official language 60 25 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 30 0

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

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