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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 Squamish, 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	17,070	14,935	20	1,875	245
Single responses	16,795	14,725	20	1,810	240
English	13,760	12,480	0	1,275	5
French	480	50	20	405	0
Non-official languages	2,555	2,190	0	130	235
Aboriginal languages	10	15	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.	5	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	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	5	5	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0	0	0
Lillooet	5	0	0	0	0
Okanagan	0	0	0	0	0
Squamish	5	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	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	245	210	0	25	10
Italian	75	70	0	10	5
Portuguese	40	35	0	0	0
Romanian	10	5	0	0	0
Spanish	115	95	0	10	5
Catalan	0	5	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	420	375	0	50	0
Dutch	55	45	0	5	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	285	245	0	30	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	75	65	0	10	0
Danish	35	30	0	5	0
Icelandic	5	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	20	15	0	5	0
Swedish	20	20	0	5	0
Afrikaans	10	10	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	175	155	0	15	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	5	5	0	0	0
Czech	45	40	0	5	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	45	40	0	5	0
Russian	25	25	0	5	0
Serbian	5	5	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	20	15	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	5	0	0	0
Ukrainian	20	20	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Latvian	5	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0	0	0
Greek	10	10	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	5	5	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	55	45	0	5	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	10	10	0	0	0
Hungarian	45	40	0	5	0
Turkic languages	0	0	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	5	5	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	5	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	10	5	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	5	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	1,185	955	0	20	210
Indo-Aryan languages	1,175	940	0	20	210
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	5	0	0	0
Hindi	45	40	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	1,115	885	0	20	210
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	5	10	0	0	0
Nepali	5	5	0	0	0
Iranian languages	10	10	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	15	15	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	5	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	110	100	0	5	5
Korean	25	20	0	5	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	80	70	0	5	5
Chinese languages	80	70	0	5	0
Cantonese	35	30	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	20	15	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	25	20	0	5	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	10	10	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	5	10	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	200	195	0	0	5
Bisayan languages	10	10	0	0	0
Ilocano	10	10	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	170	165	0	0	5
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.	10	10	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	5	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	10	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.	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	0	0	0	5	0
Non-verbal languages	10	5	0	0	5
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	275	210	0	65	5
English and French	45	10	0	40	0
English and non-official language	200	185	0	10	5
French and non-official language	30	20	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	0	5	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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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