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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 Nanaimo, CY
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 82,705 76,985 35 5,315 365
Single responses 81,905 76,425 30 5,085 365
English 72,615 68,890 5 3,705 15
French 1,170 160 25 990 5
Non-official languages 8,115 7,370 10 390 350
Aboriginal languages 65 60 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 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 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 5 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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 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 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. 10 5 0 5 0
Siouan languages 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 5 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 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 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 740 645 0 80 10
Italian 245 225 0 20 0
Portuguese 75 65 0 5 0
Romanian 45 30 0 10 5
Spanish 380 320 5 45 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,100 1,940 0 150 5
Dutch 515 465 0 45 0
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 0
German 1,095 1,010 0 85 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 380 365 0 10 0
Danish 210 200 0 10 0
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 75 75 0 0 0
Swedish 85 80 0 0 0
Afrikaans 75 70 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 940 880 0 40 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 140 135 0 5 5
Czech 110 105 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 5
Polish 220 195 0 10 5
Russian 160 145 0 10 10
Serbian 40 40 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 5 5
Slovenian 15 15 0 5 0
Ukrainian 165 160 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 65 65 0 5 5
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 295 285 0 10 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 105 100 0 5 0
Hungarian 180 170 0 5 5
Turkic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 140 125 0 15 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 130 115 0 15 5
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 110 90 0 15 5
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,175 1,040 0 30 105
Indo-Aryan languages 1,085 960 0 25 100
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 0 0
Hindi 85 80 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 900 785 0 20 100
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 30 30 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 85 80 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 85 80 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 15 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 200 185 0 5 5
Korean 275 240 0 10 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,080 970 0 10 95
Chinese languages 1,075 965 5 10 95
Cantonese 190 170 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 310 260 0 10 35
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 30 25 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 540 500 0 0 35
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 55 55 0 0 5
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 55 50 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 415 350 0 15 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 70 0 5 15
Vietnamese 325 280 0 15 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 395 385 0 0 10
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 325 315 0 0 5
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. 25 20 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 50 45 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 15 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. 10 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 800 565 0 230 5
English and French 210 55 0 155 0
English and non-official language 535 485 5 40 5
French and non-official language 35 20 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 20 0

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

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