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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 Thunder Bay
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 144,290 131,270 310 12,120 590
Single responses 142,620 130,025 305 11,705 585
English 121,845 115,170 5 6,645 25
French 5,265 430 295 4,540 0
Non-official languages 15,505 14,420 10 520 555
Aboriginal languages 1,835 1,775 0 20 30
Algonquian languages 1,800 1,745 0 20 35
Algonquin 5 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 110 105 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 105 105 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 5 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 5
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 1,320 1,275 0 15 20
Oji-Cree 370 360 0 0 5
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 0 5 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 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. 15 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,145 3,745 0 170 230
Italian 3,305 3,015 0 110 185
Portuguese 440 400 5 15 30
Romanian 65 50 0 10 5
Spanish 335 280 0 35 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,630 1,565 5 65 5
Dutch 450 430 0 15 0
Flemish 5 5 0 5 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 0
German 995 945 5 45 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 170 165 0 5 5
Danish 85 85 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 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 2,930 2,795 0 80 55
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 320 305 0 15 5
Czech 55 55 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 1,070 1,020 0 20 30
Russian 120 105 0 10 5
Serbian 45 50 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 210 200 0 10 5
Slovenian 105 105 0 0 0
Ukrainian 950 910 0 20 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 40 0 5 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Greek 160 150 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 2,950 2,785 0 85 90
Estonian 65 65 0 0 0
Finnish 2,725 2,565 0 70 85
Hungarian 165 155 0 10 5
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 165 135 0 25 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 155 125 0 25 5
Amharic 15 10 0 0 5
Arabic 130 105 0 25 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 375 335 0 20 20
Indo-Aryan languages 265 245 0 10 15
Bengali 35 30 0 5 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 0
Hindi 50 45 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 70 65 0 0 0
Nepali 35 25 0 5 0
Iranian languages 100 90 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 85 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 25 0 0 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 45 40 0 5 0
Korean 25 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 605 510 0 15 80
Chinese languages 450 375 0 10 55
Cantonese 90 70 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 70 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 280 235 0 10 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 130 105 0 0 25
Tai languages 20 15 0 0 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 125 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 130 125 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 235 235 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 190 185 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 20 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 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. 10 15 0 0 0
Creoles 25 20 5 5 0
Non-verbal languages 40 10 0 10 20
American Sign Language 20 5 0 10 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 5 15
Other languages 35 25 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,670 1,245 5 415 5
English and French 430 95 0 335 0
English and non-official language 1,130 1,080 0 45 5
French and non-official language 90 55 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0

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

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