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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 Central Kootenay^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Knowledge of official languages (5)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Knowledge of official languages	English only	French only	English and French	Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue	57,890	53,925	40	3,845	85
Single responses	57,270	53,430	35	3,720	85
English	50,300	47,770	0	2,525	5
French	1,105	200	25	885	0
Non-official languages	5,870	5,465	10	315	80
Aboriginal languages	40	35	0	5	0
Algonquian languages	15	10	0	5	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	15	15	0	5	0
Cree, n.o.s.	20	15	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	0	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	5	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	15	15	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	5	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	660	590	0	40	25
Italian	290	265	0	20	5
Portuguese	215	185	0	10	15
Romanian	10	10	0	0	0
Spanish	140	125	0	15	5
Catalan	5	0	0	5	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	1,900	1,710	5	180	10
Dutch	350	295	0	50	0
Flemish	0	5	0	0	0
Frisian	5	5	0	0	0
German	1,360	1,235	5	125	5
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	150	145	0	10	0
Danish	75	75	0	0	0
Icelandic	10	5	0	5	0
Norwegian	30	25	0	0	0
Swedish	40	35	0	5	0
Afrikaans	35	35	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Welsh	0	5	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	2,500	2,430	0	55	10
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	0	0	0	0
Croatian	35	30	0	5	0
Czech	110	105	0	5	0
Macedonian	5	0	0	0	0
Polish	130	120	0	10	0
Russian	1,995	1,960	0	30	0
Serbian	10	10	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	45	40	0	0	0
Slovenian	15	20	0	0	0
Ukrainian	140	140	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Baltic languages	25	20	0	5	0
Latvian	15	10	0	5	0
Lithuanian	10	5	0	0	0
Greek	25	20	0	5	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	5	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	155	140	0	10	0
Estonian	10	10	0	0	0
Finnish	45	40	0	5	0
Hungarian	100	100	0	5	0
Turkic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	5	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	5	5	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	20	15	0	5	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	15	15	0	5	0
Amharic	5	0	0	0	0
Arabic	5	5	0	0	0
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	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	100	95	0	5	5
Indo-Aryan languages	90	85	0	0	10
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	5	0	0	0
Hindi	5	10	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	75	65	0	0	10
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	5	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	5	0	0	0
Iranian languages	10	10	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	10	10	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	5	0	0	0	0
Telugu	5	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	70	70	0	5	0
Korean	40	35	0	5	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	155	135	5	0	15
Chinese languages	155	130	5	0	15
Cantonese	30	30	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	50	35	5	0	15
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	5	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	65	60	0	0	5
Tibetan languages	5	5	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	35	30	0	0	5
Lao	15	15	0	0	0
Thai	20	20	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	95	95	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	10	10	0	0	0
Ilocano	10	5	0	0	0
Malay	5	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	75	75	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	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	15	10	0	5	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	10	5	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	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	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	5	0
Ga	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	5	0	0	5	0
Non-verbal languages	10	10	0	0	0
American Sign Language	5	5	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	5
Other languages	5	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	620	490	0	130	0
English and French	135	40	0	95	0
English and non-official language	415	395	0	15	0
French and non-official language	65	50	0	10	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	0	5	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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