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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 Division No. 22Footnote 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 40,760 39,390 10 1,005 350
Single responses 40,100 38,775 10 970 345
English 21,205 20,575 5 620 10
French 300 30 5 260 0
Non-official languages 18,600 18,170 5 85 335
Aboriginal languages 17,535 17,200 5 30 300
Algonquian languages 17,485 17,150 5 30 300
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 11,355 11,205 5 10 135
Cree, n.o.s. 11,335 11,185 0 10 135
Swampy Cree 20 20 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 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 85 80 0 5 5
Oji-Cree 6,040 5,865 0 15 160
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 45 40 0 0 5
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 40 40 0 0 5
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. 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 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 5 0 5 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 155 140 0 15 0
Italian 15 15 0 0 0
Portuguese 75 75 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 55 45 0 5 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 95 100 0 0 0
Dutch 15 15 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 70 65 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 110 105 0 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 25 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0 5
Serbian 0 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 20 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 15 10 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 30 25 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 425 395 0 10 20
Indo-Aryan languages 415 385 0 5 20
Bengali 25 20 0 0 5
Gujarati 100 100 0 0 5
Hindi 45 40 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 205 190 0 0 15
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 0 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 40 30 0 0 10
Chinese languages 40 30 0 0 5
Cantonese 5 0 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 15 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 5 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 40 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 25 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 10 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 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. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 660 610 0 40 10
English and French 35 10 0 30 0
English and non-official language 615 600 0 10 10
French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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