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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 BrantFootnote 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 134,450 128,200 35 5,620 600
Single responses 133,290 127,250 30 5,420 595
English 119,405 115,540 0 3,820 40
French 1,370 210 20 1,140 0
Non-official languages 12,520 11,500 10 455 555
Aboriginal languages 370 360 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 15 15 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 330 325 0 5 0
Mohawk 140 135 0 5 0
Cayuga 165 160 0 0 0
Oneida 10 10 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 20 25 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,710 2,390 5 145 165
Italian 1,345 1,210 5 70 60
Portuguese 760 705 0 20 35
Romanian 140 110 0 25 5
Spanish 450 365 5 30 60
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Germanic languages 2,115 2,030 5 75 10
Dutch 1,100 1,070 0 30 0
Flemish 55 55 0 5 0
Frisian 35 35 0 0 0
German 850 800 0 40 10
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 40 35 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,680 2,515 5 85 80
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5 0
Croatian 105 105 0 0 0
Czech 50 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 1,800 1,680 5 50 70
Russian 80 75 0 5 0
Serbian 115 105 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 90 85 0 5 5
Slovenian 30 25 0 5 0
Ukrainian 355 350 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 0 0
Greek 170 150 0 15 5
Armenian 30 25 0 0 5
Albanian 40 35 0 0 5
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 760 730 0 15 10
Estonian 15 20 0 0 0
Finnish 20 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 715 690 0 15 10
Turkic languages 30 30 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 355 310 0 25 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0 0 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 330 290 0 25 20
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 270 225 0 25 15
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 55 55 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 1,300 1,175 5 30 90
Indo-Aryan languages 1,215 1,100 0 30 85
Bengali 20 20 0 0 0
Gujarati 205 180 0 5 15
Hindi 105 100 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 600 525 5 15 60
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 250 235 0 5 5
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 70 65 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 75 65 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 95 90 0 0 5
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 0 0
Tamil 30 30 0 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 5
Korean 160 145 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 520 450 0 15 60
Chinese languages 515 445 0 15 55
Cantonese 120 95 0 5 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 75 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 295 260 0 10 25
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 50 50 0 5 0
Lao 45 45 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 540 460 0 10 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 0 5
Vietnamese 515 435 0 10 70
Malayo-Polynesian languages 345 340 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 300 295 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 5
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 45 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 25 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 80 65 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 25 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,155 945 0 205 5
English and French 210 60 0 145 0
English and non-official language 885 850 0 30 5
French and non-official language 50 35 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 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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