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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 Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury
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 158,805 95,020 1,665 61,775 345
Single responses 155,520 94,135 1,645 59,400 340
English 102,420 84,025 15 18,370 10
French 42,805 1,165 1,580 40,065 0
Non-official languages 10,300 8,945 45 975 330
Aboriginal languages 260 255 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 255 240 0 10 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 65 60 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 60 55 0 5 0
Swampy Cree 5 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 185 175 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 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 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 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,260 2,765 15 360 120
Italian 2,740 2,395 5 235 110
Portuguese 185 120 0 55 10
Romanian 40 30 0 10 0
Spanish 290 225 5 60 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,025 915 5 100 5
Dutch 170 150 0 20 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 770 695 0 75 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 65 60 0 5 5
Danish 35 30 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 5 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,800 1,615 0 160 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 0 0
Croatian 280 235 0 40 5
Czech 60 60 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 535 475 0 45 10
Russian 80 65 0 10 5
Serbian 90 85 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 55 55 0 0 0
Slovenian 55 55 0 5 0
Ukrainian 580 535 0 40 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Baltic languages 90 75 0 10 0
Latvian 35 35 0 5 0
Lithuanian 45 45 0 5 0
Greek 140 115 0 15 5
Armenian 10 5 0 5 0
Albanian 0 0 0 5 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 1,585 1,495 0 70 20
Estonian 40 40 0 0 0
Finnish 1,440 1,360 0 60 20
Hungarian 105 95 0 5 0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 420 290 5 105 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 410 285 5 100 20
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 405 280 5 100 20
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 530 475 0 30 20
Indo-Aryan languages 455 410 0 25 15
Bengali 15 15 0 0 0
Gujarati 90 80 0 5 10
Hindi 80 75 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 80 0 5 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 115 105 0 5 10
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 65 55 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 55 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 85 85 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 5
Tamil 30 30 0 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0 0
Korean 90 80 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 495 410 0 20 65
Chinese languages 495 405 0 20 70
Cantonese 135 105 0 5 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 75 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 220 0 15 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 10 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 105 90 0 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 100 85 0 10 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 140 135 5 5 5
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 105 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 135 65 15 50 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 90 45 15 35 0
Lingala 5 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 5 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 0 0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0
Swahili 15 5 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 0 5 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 5 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 15 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Creoles 5 0 5 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 15 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 10 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 3,280 885 25 2,370 0
English and French 2,500 260 15 2,220 0
English and non-official language 630 585 0 50 0
French and non-official language 105 40 10 60 0
English, French and non-official language 45 5 0 40 0

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

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