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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 Columbia-Shuswap^{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	50,110	46,765	15	3,240	90
Single responses	49,715	46,455	10	3,155	90
English	45,170	42,955	0	2,210	0
French	890	125	10	750	0
Non-official languages	3,660	3,375	0	200	85
Aboriginal languages	70	70	0	5	0
Algonquian languages	15	15	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	5	0	0	0
Cree languages	15	15	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	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	5	5	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	50	50	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	50	45	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	5	5	0	0	0
Dakota	5	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	5	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	5	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	370	340	0	25	5
Italian	225	210	0	10	5
Portuguese	45	40	0	0	0
Romanian	10	10	0	0	0
Spanish	85	75	0	10	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	5	0
Germanic languages	1,965	1,830	0	120	15
Dutch	385	355	0	30	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	10	10	0	5	0
German	1,400	1,305	0	85	15
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	145	145	0	5	0
Danish	75	70	0	5	0
Icelandic	5	5	0	0	0
Norwegian	35	35	0	0	0
Swedish	30	30	0	0	0
Afrikaans	25	25	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	5	0	5	0
Gaelic languages	5	0	0	5	0
Welsh	5	5	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	510	480	0	20	10
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	5	0	0	0	0
Croatian	25	25	0	0	0
Czech	60	60	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	85	75	0	10	5
Russian	85	80	0	0	5
Serbian	5	5	0	5	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	5	0	0	0
Slovak	15	15	0	0	0
Slovenian	15	20	0	0	0
Ukrainian	205	200	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	10	0	0	0
Latvian	10	0	0	5	0
Lithuanian	5	0	0	0	0
Greek	15	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	155	150	0	5	5
Estonian	5	5	0	0	0
Finnish	80	75	0	0	0
Hungarian	75	70	0	0	0
Turkic languages	5	0	0	5	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	5	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	15	15	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	20	15	0	0	5
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	10	5	0	0	0
Hebrew	5	5	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	185	150	0	5	20
Indo-Aryan languages	180	145	0	5	25
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	5	0	0	0	0
Hindi	10	5	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	160	130	0	5	25
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	5	5	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	5	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	5	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	5	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	65	60	0	0	5
Korean	55	50	0	0	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	105	85	0	5	15
Chinese languages	105	90	0	0	15
Cantonese	30	25	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	15	10	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	65	55	0	5	10
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	5	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	10	10	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	5	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	90	90	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	5	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	75	75	0	0	0
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.	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	0	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	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.	5	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	5	0
Non-verbal languages	5	5	0	5	5
American Sign Language	0	5	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	395	310	0	85	0
English and French	100	35	0	65	0
English and non-official language	270	255	0	10	0
French and non-official language	20	20	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	5	0	0	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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