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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 Kitimat-Stikine^{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	37,140	35,090	35	1,880	140
Single responses	36,645	34,675	35	1,800	140
English	31,280	30,210	0	1,060	10
French	720	80	25	615	0
Non-official languages	4,650	4,385	5	130	130
Aboriginal languages	1,420	1,410	0	10	5
Algonquian languages	10	10	0	5	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	5	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	5	5	0	5	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	5	5	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	175	175	0	5	0
Carrier	10	5	0	0	0
Wetsuweten	95	95	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	70	70	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	5	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	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.	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	1,090	1,085	0	5	0
Gitksan	630	625	0	0	0
Nisga'a	410	405	0	5	0
Tsimshian	50	50	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	130	130	0	5	0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)	0	0	0	0	0
Haisla	125	130	0	5	0
Heiltsuk	0	5	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages	0	5	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	5	0	0	0
Romance languages	1,210	1,100	0	40	75
Italian	140	125	0	15	10
Portuguese	965	885	0	15	65
Romanian	10	5	0	5	0
Spanish	95	85	0	10	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	975	920	0	45	5
Dutch	170	160	0	5	0
Flemish	5	10	0	0	0
Frisian	5	0	0	0	0
German	660	625	0	35	5
Yiddish	0	5	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	75	75	0	0	0
Danish	30	30	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	30	25	0	0	0
Swedish	15	15	0	0	0
Afrikaans	60	60	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	5	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	165	150	0	10	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	15	0	0	0
Czech	15	10	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	50	45	0	10	0
Russian	20	20	0	5	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	5	5	0	0	0
Slovenian	5	5	0	0	0
Ukrainian	50	45	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Latvian	5	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	5	0	0	0
Greek	35	35	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	105	100	0	5	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	65	60	0	5	0
Hungarian	45	45	0	0	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	20	15	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Oromo	5	5	0	0	0
Somali	0	5	0	0	0
Semitic languages	15	10	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	10	10	5	0	5
Hebrew	0	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	345	310	0	10	35
Indo-Aryan languages	340	300	0	10	35
Bengali	0	5	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	20	10	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	315	275	0	5	30
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	5	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.	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	15	15	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	5	0	0	0
Tamil	5	5	0	0	0
Telugu	5	5	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	15	15	0	0	0
Korean	15	15	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	105	90	5	0	10
Chinese languages	105	90	5	0	10
Cantonese	35	25	0	0	5
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	5	10	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	65	55	5	0	10
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Tai languages	10	10	0	0	0
Lao	5	0	0	0	0
Thai	5	5	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	20	15	0	0	5
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	15	15	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	160	155	0	5	0
Bisayan languages	20	15	0	0	0
Ilocano	5	5	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	135	130	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.	5	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	10	5	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	5	5	0	0	0
Bantu languages	5	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.	5	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	5	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	5	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	5	5	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	0
Other languages	5	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	500	420	0	80	0
English and French	70	20	0	50	0
English and non-official language	405	385	0	20	0
French and non-official language	10	10	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	10	5	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%.

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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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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