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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 Central Okanagan
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 177,620 165,370 70 11,515 665
Single responses 175,825 163,995 65 11,110 655
English 152,525 144,845 5 7,645 30
French 3,080 430 55 2,595 0
Non-official languages 20,220 18,725 5 865 630
Aboriginal languages 105 105 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 25 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 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 5 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 25 20 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 15 15 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 45 45 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 5 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 40 40 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 5 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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. 5 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,245 1,975 0 205 60
Italian 920 825 0 80 10
Portuguese 355 305 0 40 10
Romanian 225 180 0 35 10
Spanish 745 665 0 55 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 7,785 7,405 5 340 40
Dutch 1,070 995 0 75 5
Flemish 20 15 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 6,160 5,885 0 240 35
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 400 385 0 20 0
Danish 185 175 0 5 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 100 100 0 0 0
Swedish 105 95 0 15 0
Afrikaans 115 110 0 0 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,560 3,390 0 120 50
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 50 50 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 0 0
Croatian 335 325 0 5 10
Czech 280 265 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 710 655 0 40 5
Russian 680 635 0 20 20
Serbian 165 160 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 45 45 0 0 0
Slovak 110 110 0 0 0
Slovenian 140 140 0 0 0
Ukrainian 940 920 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5 0
Greek 125 120 0 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 25 20 0 5 5
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 910 850 0 45 10
Estonian 30 30 0 0 0
Finnish 165 160 0 5 5
Hungarian 715 665 0 40 10
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 40 30 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 245 205 0 30 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 230 195 0 35 5
Amharic 10 10 0 0 5
Arabic 170 135 0 25 5
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 15 15 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 2,275 1,955 0 50 270
Indo-Aryan languages 2,040 1,750 0 40 255
Bengali 60 60 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 130 115 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,760 1,490 0 30 240
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 0
Nepali 25 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 230 200 0 15 10
Kurdish 5 10 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 215 185 0 15 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 350 330 0 10 10
Korean 350 310 0 5 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,020 895 0 20 105
Chinese languages 1,015 895 0 20 105
Cantonese 235 190 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 15 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 205 185 0 0 20
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 535 480 0 5 55
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 75 75 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 70 70 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 205 190 0 5 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 195 180 0 5 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 725 710 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 50 0 0 5
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 585 570 0 5 5
Bikol 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 30 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 20 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 50 25 0 0 25
American Sign Language 30 15 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,795 1,375 5 405 10
English and French 395 100 0 295 0
English and non-official language 1,275 1,190 0 80 5
French and non-official language 90 65 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 35 20 0 10 0

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

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