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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 Cambridge, 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 125,640 116,855 60 6,705 2,030
Single responses 123,715 115,295 50 6,350 2,025
English 100,075 96,035 5 4,000 40
French 1,700 140 35 1,525 0
Non-official languages 21,940 19,115 10 830 1,985
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 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 5 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 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 8,605 7,220 5 280 1,100
Italian 805 710 0 65 30
Portuguese 6,175 5,115 5 100 955
Romanian 310 245 0 50 20
Spanish 1,310 1,145 0 70 95
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,635 1,535 0 100 0
Dutch 515 480 0 30 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 1,015 955 0 60 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 60 0 5 0
Danish 35 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 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 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,175 2,010 0 110 60
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 0
Croatian 290 265 0 15 5
Czech 150 135 0 15 0
Macedonian 95 90 0 0 0
Polish 965 895 0 40 25
Russian 165 145 0 10 10
Serbian 140 125 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 80 80 0 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 5 0
Ukrainian 190 165 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 0 0
Greek 205 195 0 5 5
Armenian 225 190 0 20 10
Albanian 45 35 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 530 495 0 20 15
Estonian 30 25 0 0 0
Finnish 55 45 0 5 0
Hungarian 450 420 0 15 15
Turkic languages 70 65 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 715 610 0 60 40
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 30 25 0 0 5
Semitic languages 680 580 0 60 40
Amharic 35 35 0 0 0
Arabic 565 470 5 60 40
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 35 35 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,550 3,960 0 140 455
Indo-Aryan languages 3,755 3,260 0 110 385
Bengali 55 45 0 5 0
Gujarati 980 820 0 20 140
Hindi 210 195 0 5 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,430 1,210 0 40 170
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 1,025 930 0 30 60
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 790 690 0 30 70
Kurdish 25 20 0 0 5
Pashto 585 515 0 15 55
Persian (Farsi) 175 150 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 255 235 0 5 15
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 75 70 0 0 5
Tamil 155 135 0 5 10
Telugu 30 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 85 65 0 0 20
Korean 130 120 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 940 780 0 35 130
Chinese languages 940 780 0 35 130
Cantonese 255 210 0 15 35
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 10 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 210 175 0 5 35
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 455 385 0 15 55
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 315 275 0 10 30
Lao 270 240 0 5 20
Thai 45 35 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 720 625 5 15 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 705 620 5 10 75
Malayo-Polynesian languages 535 530 0 0 10
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malay 35 30 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 450 440 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 25 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 45 35 0 0 10
American Sign Language 30 30 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 15 15 0 0 5
Multiple responses 1,930 1,560 10 355 5
English and French 265 40 5 225 0
English and non-official language 1,580 1,495 5 75 10
French and non-official language 40 20 0 20 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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