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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables
Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey
About this variable: Detailed mother tongue (158)
Definition
Mother tongue
Part A - Short definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual on May 10, 2011.
Values
- Total - Detailed mother tongue
- Single responses
- English
- French
- Non-official languages
- Aboriginal languages
- Romance languages
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Catalan
- Romance languages, n.i.e.
- Germanic languages
- Dutch
- Flemish
- Frisian
- German
- Yiddish
- Scandinavian languages
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Afrikaans
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Celtic languages
- Gaelic languages
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Slavic languages
- Belarusian (Byelorussian)
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Baltic languages
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Greek
- Armenian
- Albanian
- Georgian
- Finno-Ugric languages
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Mongolian
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Berber languages (Kabyle)
- Cushitic languages
- Oromo
- Somali
- Semitic languages
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Panjabi (Punjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Nepali
- Iranian languages
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Dravidian languages
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Korean
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Cantonese
- Chaochow (Teochow)
- Fukien
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Shanghainese
- Taiwanese
- Chinese, n.o.s.
- Tibetan languages
- Burmese
- Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
- Tai languages
- Lao
- Thai
- Austro-Asiatic languages
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Malayo-Polynesian languages
- Bisayan languages
- Ilocano
- Malay
- Pampango
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Bikol
- Malagasy
- Fijian
- Pangasinan
- Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
- Niger-Congo languages
- Akan (Twi)
- Bantu languages
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Ganda
- Bantu languages, n.i.e.
- Edo
- Igbo
- Wolof
- Bamanankan
- Ewe
- Ga
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- African languages, n.i.e.
- Creoles
- Non-verbal languages
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages
- Multiple responses
- English and French
- English and non-official language
- French and non-official language
- English, French and non-official language
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