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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 Thunder Bay, 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 106,695 98,010 120 8,030 540
Single responses 105,360 96,985 115 7,730 530
English 90,140 84,950 0 5,170 25
French 2,515 265 115 2,140 0
Non-official languages 12,705 11,775 5 420 505
Aboriginal languages 1,160 1,120 0 20 25
Algonquian languages 1,145 1,105 0 15 20
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 85 85 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 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 5 0 0 5
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 695 675 0 15 5
Oji-Cree 350 340 0 0 10
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 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. 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,800 3,430 0 145 220
Italian 3,075 2,795 0 95 180
Portuguese 380 345 0 10 25
Romanian 55 40 0 10 5
Spanish 295 245 0 30 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,085 1,040 0 40 0
Dutch 245 240 0 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 5 0
German 715 685 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 115 110 0 5 5
Danish 50 50 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 40 40 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,605 2,495 5 65 50
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 320 305 0 15 5
Czech 45 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 945 900 0 15 30
Russian 95 80 0 10 5
Serbian 45 45 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 195 185 0 5 0
Slovenian 100 95 0 0 5
Ukrainian 825 800 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 30 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 145 140 0 0 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 2,185 2,045 0 65 70
Estonian 45 40 0 5 0
Finnish 2,000 1,875 0 60 70
Hungarian 135 130 0 5 5
Turkic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 5 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 155 125 0 25 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 145 115 0 25 5
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 125 100 0 20 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 355 320 0 15 20
Indo-Aryan languages 255 235 0 10 15
Bengali 35 30 0 5 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 65 60 0 0 5
Nepali 35 30 0 0 0
Iranian languages 95 85 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 80 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 575 490 0 10 75
Chinese languages 420 360 0 10 50
Cantonese 80 65 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 230 0 5 25
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 35 30 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 125 100 0 0 25
Tai languages 20 15 0 5 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 125 115 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 125 115 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 200 200 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 20 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 160 160 0 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 30 20 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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. 5 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 40 10 0 10 20
American Sign Language 25 10 0 10 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 35 30 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,335 1,025 0 300 5
English and French 305 70 5 235 0
English and non-official language 945 905 0 40 10
French and non-official language 60 35 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0

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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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