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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 Airdrie, CY
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 42,480 39,380 20 2,970 105
Single responses 41,995 39,035 25 2,835 110
English 38,260 36,210 0 2,045 5
French 720 60 20 635 0
Non-official languages 3,020 2,760 0 155 100
Aboriginal languages 5 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 5 0 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 535 465 0 50 15
Italian 70 65 0 5 0
Portuguese 55 50 0 0 0
Romanian 40 30 0 5 0
Spanish 380 325 0 35 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 610 575 0 30 5
Dutch 155 145 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 395 375 0 20 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 40 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 330 305 0 10 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 20 25 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 90 85 0 10 0
Russian 55 45 0 0 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 70 70 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 30 20 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 65 0 0 5
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 45 0 5 5
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 75 55 0 20 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 70 55 0 15 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 55 35 0 15 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 430 390 0 5 35
Indo-Aryan languages 400 365 0 5 30
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 235 200 0 0 30
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 95 90 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 15 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 0 0 0
Korean 60 55 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 165 0 10 20
Chinese languages 195 170 0 10 20
Cantonese 70 65 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 85 0 5 10
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 30 30 0 5 0
Lao 15 10 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 75 70 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 405 395 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 375 370 0 5 0
Bikol 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 65 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 20 15 0 5 0
Bantu languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 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 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 480 345 0 135 0
English and French 140 40 0 100 0
English and non-official language 310 295 0 15 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 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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