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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 Chatham-Kent
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 102,760 95,010 75 7,065 605
Single responses 101,845 94,450 70 6,730 600
English 90,185 86,095 5 4,070 15
French 2,915 435 60 2,420 0
Non-official languages 8,750 7,925 5 235 585
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 5 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 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 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,450 1,250 0 80 120
Italian 510 465 0 20 25
Portuguese 645 555 0 20 65
Romanian 65 60 0 5 0
Spanish 225 165 0 35 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,615 4,215 0 70 330
Dutch 1,330 1,300 0 25 0
Flemish 210 185 0 25 0
Frisian 35 35 0 0 0
German 2,995 2,645 0 20 330
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,020 975 0 25 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0 0
Czech 210 205 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0 0
Polish 425 405 0 10 15
Russian 30 30 0 5 0
Serbian 40 40 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 105 110 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 130 120 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 125 125 0 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 5
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 165 160 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 150 150 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 120 100 0 15 5
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 115 95 0 15 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 85 70 0 15 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 20 20 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 320 280 0 10 25
Indo-Aryan languages 280 255 0 10 20
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 45 40 0 0 10
Hindi 20 20 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 65 0 5 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 120 115 0 5 5
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 35 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Korean 140 140 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 225 185 0 5 35
Chinese languages 225 185 0 5 30
Cantonese 70 60 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 40 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 85 0 0 15
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 80 50 0 5 20
Lao 35 30 0 0 5
Thai 40 20 0 0 15
Austro-Asiatic languages 220 190 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 210 180 0 10 20
Malayo-Polynesian languages 105 105 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 95 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 20 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 10 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 910 565 5 340 0
English and French 360 75 0 285 0
English and non-official language 495 460 0 20 5
French and non-official language 40 25 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 15 0

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

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