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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 Nelson, CY^{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	10,030	8,895	5	1,105	25
Single responses	9,925	8,835	5	1,060	25
English	8,855	8,065	0	790	0
French	215	15	0	200	0
Non-official languages	855	755	0	75	25
Aboriginal languages	0	5	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	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	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.	5	5	0	0	0
Romance languages	180	160	0	15	10
Italian	120	115	0	5	5
Portuguese	20	10	0	5	0
Romanian	5	5	0	0	0
Spanish	35	25	0	5	0
Catalan	0	0	0	5	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	235	195	0	40	0
Dutch	65	55	0	15	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	155	130	0	20	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	15	10	0	5	0
Danish	5	5	0	5	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	5	0	0	0
Swedish	5	5	0	0	0
Afrikaans	5	5	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	215	210	0	5	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	15	0	0	0
Czech	15	15	0	0	0
Macedonian	5	0	0	0	0
Polish	15	15	0	0	0
Russian	125	125	0	0	0
Serbian	5	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	15	10	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	5	0	0	0
Ukrainian	20	20	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Latvian	5	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	0	0	0	0
Greek	5	5	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	20	20	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	5	10	0	0	0
Hungarian	10	10	0	5	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	5	5	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Amharic	0	5	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	5	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	25	25	0	5	0
Indo-Aryan languages	25	20	0	5	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	20	15	0	5	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	5	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	5	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	30	25	0	0	0
Korean	15	15	0	0	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	75	60	5	0	10
Chinese languages	70	60	0	0	10
Cantonese	15	15	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	30	15	0	0	5
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	30	30	0	0	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	5	5	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	5	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	15	15	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	15	15	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	5	5	0	5	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	5	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	5
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	105	55	0	45	0
English and French	50	5	5	40	0
English and non-official language	50	50	0	0	0
French and non-official language	5	0	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	5	0	0	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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