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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 Division No. 6
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 234,990 221,085 145 12,280 1,485
Single responses 232,205 218,785 140 11,815 1,470
English 203,785 195,000 5 8,735 50
French 2,880 500 95 2,280 0
Non-official languages 25,545 23,285 35 795 1,425
Aboriginal languages 635 620 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 500 495 0 10 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 375 370 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 370 365 0 5 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 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 120 120 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 20 15 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 10 10 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 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 95 90 0 0 0
Dakota 55 50 0 0 0
Stoney 5 5 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 40 35 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 5 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 1,745 1,510 5 175 55
Italian 395 360 0 35 5
Portuguese 85 70 0 15 0
Romanian 315 280 0 25 5
Spanish 950 800 5 110 40
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,230 4,100 0 115 20
Dutch 360 335 0 20 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 10 0 5 0
German 3,565 3,470 0 75 20
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 140 135 0 0 0
Danish 55 55 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 60 55 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 140 140 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,510 3,330 0 80 100
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 65 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0 0
Croatian 120 115 0 10 5
Czech 45 40 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 5
Polish 530 500 0 25 5
Russian 690 620 0 10 55
Serbian 160 150 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 35 40 0 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 30 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 1,755 1,700 0 25 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Greek 505 485 0 15 5
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 65 60 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 590 575 0 20 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 30 35 0 0 0
Hungarian 555 535 0 15 5
Turkic languages 85 75 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 70 65 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,250 1,080 5 65 100
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 320 275 5 5 35
Oromo 40 30 0 0 10
Somali 275 245 0 5 30
Semitic languages 925 800 5 60 65
Amharic 115 105 0 5 0
Arabic 640 530 0 55 50
Hebrew 40 35 0 0 5
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 125 120 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,880 3,470 0 100 315
Indo-Aryan languages 3,285 2,940 0 75 270
Bengali 385 340 0 25 20
Gujarati 285 265 0 5 20
Hindi 305 285 0 5 15
Konkani 10 5 0 5 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,010 910 0 20 80
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 1,060 965 0 25 70
Nepali 180 110 0 0 65
Iranian languages 545 480 0 25 40
Kurdish 50 45 0 0 0
Pashto 140 115 0 10 10
Persian (Farsi) 355 320 0 15 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 265 260 0 5 5
Kannada 15 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 70 0 0 5
Tamil 105 100 0 0 0
Telugu 80 75 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 80 75 0 0 5
Korean 465 395 0 10 65
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,360 2,765 5 65 525
Chinese languages 2,975 2,495 5 65 410
Cantonese 580 475 0 10 95
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 5
Fukien 10 5 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 505 430 0 15 70
Shanghainese 10 0 0 5 5
Taiwanese 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,855 1,575 5 40 240
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 35 30 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 350 235 0 0 110
Tai languages 210 190 0 10 15
Lao 150 135 0 10 10
Thai 60 55 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 960 820 0 20 115
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 0 5
Vietnamese 910 785 0 20 105
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,950 2,895 0 15 40
Bisayan languages 175 175 0 0 0
Ilocano 175 170 0 0 5
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 25 25 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,505 2,465 0 10 25
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 455 355 15 75 15
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bantu languages 220 150 15 40 15
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 30 10 0 10 10
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 5 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 75 50 10 15 0
Ganda 20 20 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 5 0
Edo 5 10 0 0 0
Igbo 45 40 0 5 0
Wolof 20 0 0 20 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 15 0 0 0
Ga 15 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 110 100 5 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 140 135 0 0 0
Creoles 30 15 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 30 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 65 50 0 0 15
Multiple responses 2,785 2,300 5 470 15
English and French 415 115 0 300 0
English and non-official language 2,185 2,100 0 75 10
French and non-official language 130 80 5 50 5
English, French and non-official language 55 10 0 45 0

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

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