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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 Esquimalt, DM
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 16,075 14,195 30 1,815 35
Single responses 15,870 14,065 30 1,740 35
English 14,080 12,935 0 1,135 5
French 560 40 30 495 0
Non-official languages 1,230 1,090 5 105 35
Aboriginal languages 15 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. 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 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 5 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. 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 185 150 0 25 5
Italian 35 25 0 5 5
Portuguese 35 35 0 5 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 115 90 0 15 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 265 240 0 20 5
Dutch 65 65 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 150 130 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 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 170 145 0 25 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 50 0 10 0
Russian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 40 35 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 5 0
Turkic languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 25 20 0 5 5
Amharic 10 5 0 0 0
Arabic 10 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 65 55 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 55 50 0 5 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 30 0 5 0
Korean 25 25 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 110 90 0 5 15
Chinese languages 115 90 0 5 10
Cantonese 35 30 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 25 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 0 5
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 10 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 100 85 0 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 10 0 10 0
Vietnamese 80 75 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 125 125 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 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 15 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 205 135 0 70 0
English and French 70 15 0 60 0
English and non-official language 120 115 0 0 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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

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