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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 Victoria, CYFootnote 1
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 77,225 66,745 50 9,760 675
Single responses 76,145 66,030 45 9,400 670
English 64,555 57,300 5 7,225 20
French 1,515 130 35 1,350 0
Non-official languages 10,075 8,595 5 825 650
Aboriginal languages 55 55 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 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 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 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. 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 5 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 5 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Gitksan 10 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 10 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 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 1,270 1,035 0 195 35
Italian 220 175 0 45 5
Portuguese 205 165 5 30 5
Romanian 70 45 0 25 0
Spanish 775 650 0 95 25
Catalan 0 0 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,720 1,445 0 260 5
Dutch 380 320 0 60 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 1,035 865 0 165 5
Yiddish 20 10 0 10 0
Scandinavian languages 240 215 0 15 5
Danish 110 100 0 10 5
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 45 45 0 0 0
Swedish 65 65 0 5 0
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 15 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,190 1,030 0 125 35
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 35 25 0 5 0
Croatian 110 100 0 10 0
Czech 95 75 0 20 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 350 305 0 40 10
Russian 280 245 0 25 10
Serbian 50 40 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 25 20 0 5 5
Slovak 45 45 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 160 140 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 5 0
Greek 65 65 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 50 50 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 295 270 0 20 0
Estonian 20 10 0 5 0
Finnish 70 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 205 195 0 15 0
Turkic languages 55 50 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 50 45 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 495 405 0 60 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 40 40 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0 0
Somali 15 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages 460 365 5 60 30
Amharic 50 45 0 5 0
Arabic 365 280 0 55 30
Hebrew 20 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 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 710 630 0 40 35
Indo-Aryan languages 490 440 0 20 25
Bengali 20 20 0 0 0
Gujarati 30 25 0 0 0
Hindi 80 80 0 5 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 265 235 0 15 20
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 5 0
Urdu 50 45 0 0 10
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 215 180 0 20 15
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 210 175 0 20 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 45 0 5 0
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 15 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 400 375 0 15 15
Korean 360 320 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,130 1,670 0 45 415
Chinese languages 2,125 1,665 0 45 420
Cantonese 680 510 0 15 150
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 435 375 0 10 50
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 985 755 0 15 215
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 80 80 0 0 5
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 75 70 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 190 170 0 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 20 0 0 0
Vietnamese 165 145 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 755 745 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 80 75 0 0 5
Ilocano 45 40 0 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 590 585 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 85 75 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 55 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 35 25 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 5 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,085 715 0 360 5
English and French 275 55 0 220 0
English and non-official language 715 630 0 75 5
French and non-official language 60 25 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 35 15 5 20 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.

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