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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 Sooke, DM^{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	11,400	10,320	10	1,055	10
Single responses	11,310	10,270	10	1,025	5
English	10,445	9,715	0	730	0
French	270	20	10	235	0
Non-official languages	595	535	0	55	10
Aboriginal languages	10	5	0	5	0
Algonquian languages	5	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	5	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	5	0	0	0
Romance languages	100	85	0	10	5
Italian	10	10	0	5	0
Portuguese	15	10	0	0	0
Romanian	15	10	0	5	0
Spanish	60	55	0	5	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	270	240	0	25	0
Dutch	75	60	0	15	0
Flemish	5	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	165	155	0	15	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	30	25	0	5	0
Danish	20	15	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	5	10	0	0	0
Swedish	5	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	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	85	75	0	5	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	10	15	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	20	15	0	0	0
Russian	30	20	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	5	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	15	15	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	5	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	5	0	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	10	10	0	0	0
Hungarian	10	10	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	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	0	5	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	5	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	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	20	15	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	15	15	0	0	0
Bengali	0	5	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	10	10	0	0	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	5	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	5	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	15	15	0	0	0
Korean	10	5	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	20	20	0	0	0
Chinese languages	20	20	0	0	0
Cantonese	5	5	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	10	10	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	5	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	5	5	0	0	0
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	5	5	0	0	0
Lao	0	5	0	0	0
Thai	5	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	25	25	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)	20	20	0	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	5	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	5	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	5	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	0	0
Ga	5	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	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	5
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	85	50	0	35	0
English and French	25	5	0	15	0
English and non-official language	55	45	0	10	0
French and non-official language	10	0	0	10	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: 2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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