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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 Medicine Hat, 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 59,015 56,625 10 2,200 185
Single responses 58,565 56,255 5 2,120 190
English 53,095 51,645 0 1,440 5
French 695 120 0 570 0
Non-official languages 4,780 4,490 5 115 180
Aboriginal languages 25 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 15 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 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. 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 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 635 560 0 35 40
Italian 65 60 0 5 0
Portuguese 40 35 0 0 5
Romanian 35 25 0 5 5
Spanish 500 445 0 25 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,105 2,065 0 35 5
Dutch 205 195 0 10 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,805 1,780 0 20 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 510 500 0 10 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 70 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 45 45 0 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 105 105 0 5 0
Russian 65 60 0 0 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 20 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 135 130 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 35 35 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 85 85 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 65 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 175 0 5 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 35 0 0 15
Oromo 10 5 0 0 5
Somali 35 25 0 0 5
Semitic languages 160 140 0 5 20
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 145 120 0 5 15
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 205 185 0 10 10
Indo-Aryan languages 165 150 0 10 10
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 25 0 0 5
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 5 0
Korean 35 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 355 290 0 5 65
Chinese languages 345 280 0 5 60
Cantonese 70 60 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 235 185 0 5 45
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 250 245 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 230 230 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 30 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 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. 25 25 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 450 370 5 80 0
English and French 85 30 0 60 0
English and non-official language 340 330 0 10 0
French and non-official language 20 20 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0

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

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