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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 St. Catharines, 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 129,115 119,235 115 8,815 945
Single responses 127,290 117,880 105 8,365 935
English 103,640 98,820 5 4,790 25
French 2,890 265 90 2,530 5
Non-official languages 20,755 18,800 15 1,035 910
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 10 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 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,935 4,315 5 305 315
Italian 2,550 2,250 0 145 160
Portuguese 225 190 5 25 10
Romanian 130 105 0 20 5
Spanish 2,025 1,770 0 115 140
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,145 3,980 0 145 20
Dutch 1,270 1,220 0 50 0
Flemish 20 15 0 5 0
Frisian 30 25 0 0 0
German 2,675 2,575 5 80 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 125 115 0 10 0
Danish 75 75 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 5 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 5
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 4,420 4,020 0 235 165
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 110 100 0 5 10
Bulgarian 60 55 0 10 0
Croatian 230 220 0 5 10
Czech 150 140 0 5 5
Macedonian 30 25 0 0 5
Polish 1,930 1,760 0 95 75
Russian 455 385 0 30 35
Serbian 130 110 0 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 0 0
Slovak 170 160 0 5 0
Slovenian 180 180 0 5 0
Ukrainian 915 835 0 60 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 120 110 0 5 5
Latvian 55 55 0 0 0
Lithuanian 65 60 0 5 0
Greek 255 235 0 10 10
Armenian 190 160 0 15 15
Albanian 95 90 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 530 495 0 25 10
Estonian 55 55 0 5 0
Finnish 75 75 0 0 0
Hungarian 400 365 0 25 10
Turkic languages 100 90 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 85 75 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,485 1,255 0 135 95
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 60 55 0 0 5
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 5 0
Semitic languages 1,420 1,195 5 135 90
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 1,330 1,110 0 130 85
Hebrew 35 25 0 10 0
Maltese 20 20 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,095 1,010 0 30 50
Indo-Aryan languages 750 690 0 25 35
Bengali 85 80 0 5 0
Gujarati 110 95 0 5 10
Hindi 105 95 0 5 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 95 95 0 0 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 270 250 0 5 10
Nepali 15 10 0 0 5
Iranian languages 340 315 0 10 15
Kurdish 135 125 0 0 5
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 175 170 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 115 105 0 0 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 5 0
Tamil 50 50 0 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 85 80 0 0 0
Korean 325 285 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,335 1,205 0 25 105
Chinese languages 1,335 1,205 0 30 105
Cantonese 180 160 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 355 320 0 10 20
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 785 705 0 15 65
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 260 215 0 10 30
Lao 225 185 0 10 30
Thai 35 30 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 300 245 0 15 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 110 0 5 20
Vietnamese 170 135 0 10 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 640 635 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 5
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 550 545 0 0 5
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 210 175 0 30 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages 140 120 5 25 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 55 50 0 0 0
Swahili 55 50 0 5 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 5 5
African languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Creoles 35 25 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,820 1,350 5 460 10
English and French 400 85 0 315 0
English and non-official language 1,310 1,230 0 70 10
French and non-official language 70 30 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 40 5 0 35 0

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

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