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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 Cowichan Valley
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 79,560 74,940 15 4,460 145
Single responses 78,990 74,465 15 4,360 145
English 72,790 69,555 5 3,230 10
French 1,015 190 10 820 0
Non-official languages 5,175 4,720 0 310 140
Aboriginal languages 380 380 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 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. 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 0 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 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 340 340 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 315 315 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 5 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. 20 20 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 20 25 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 20 20 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 385 315 0 60 10
Italian 150 130 0 20 0
Portuguese 65 50 0 10 5
Romanian 10 5 0 5 0
Spanish 160 135 0 25 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,105 1,950 0 150 0
Dutch 695 645 0 50 0
Flemish 15 5 0 10 0
Frisian 5 10 0 0 0
German 1,085 1,005 0 75 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 275 265 0 10 5
Danish 165 155 0 5 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 60 55 0 0 5
Swedish 50 55 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 460 435 5 20 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 40 40 0 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 115 105 0 10 0
Russian 60 55 0 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 140 135 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 35 30 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 230 215 0 10 5
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 105 100 0 5 0
Hungarian 120 110 0 5 5
Turkic languages 5 5 0 5 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 30 15 0 10 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 5 0
Hebrew 5 0 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 730 640 0 15 70
Indo-Aryan languages 685 600 0 15 70
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 5
Hindi 25 20 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 630 555 5 5 65
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 45 35 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 75 65 0 5 0
Korean 100 90 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 270 240 0 10 30
Chinese languages 265 230 0 5 25
Cantonese 85 70 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 35 40 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 115 0 5 10
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 70 70 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 60 5 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 210 205 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 180 175 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 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 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 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 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 0 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 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 10 0 0 0
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 575 470 0 100 0
English and French 120 45 0 75 0
English and non-official language 415 400 0 15 0
French and non-official language 25 20 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0

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

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