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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Thunder Bay
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 119,925 110,485 135 8,755 550
Single responses 118,525 109,400 135 8,445 545
English 102,115 96,505 0 5,585 25
French 2,835 300 130 2,410 0
Non-official languages 13,575 12,595 5 450 515
Aboriginal languages 1,180 1,145 5 15 25
Algonquian languages 1,165 1,130 0 15 20
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 90 85 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 85 85 0 0 5
Swampy Cree 5 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 710 690 0 10 10
Oji-Cree 355 345 0 0 5
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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 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 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 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 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,920 3,545 0 150 225
Italian 3,160 2,880 0 100 180
Portuguese 395 360 0 10 25
Romanian 60 50 0 10 5
Spanish 305 255 0 35 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,395 1,335 5 55 0
Dutch 410 395 0 10 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 10 10 0 5 0
German 830 795 0 35 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 130 125 0 5 0
Danish 60 60 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 0 0
Swedish 45 45 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,770 2,645 0 75 50
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 320 305 0 10 5
Czech 55 55 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 995 950 0 20 30
Russian 105 90 0 10 5
Serbian 45 45 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 205 195 0 5 0
Slovenian 105 100 0 0 0
Ukrainian 895 860 0 20 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 40 0 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Greek 145 140 0 5 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 2,400 2,255 0 70 80
Estonian 50 50 0 5 0
Finnish 2,205 2,070 0 60 75
Hungarian 140 130 0 5 0
Turkic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 155 125 0 25 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 150 120 0 20 5
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 125 100 0 25 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 360 330 0 15 15
Indo-Aryan languages 260 235 0 10 15
Bengali 40 30 0 5 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 5 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0 0
Nepali 35 30 0 0 0
Iranian languages 105 90 0 10 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 85 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0 0
Korean 30 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 585 495 0 10 75
Chinese languages 425 365 0 10 50
Cantonese 75 60 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 65 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 230 0 10 30
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 35 30 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 125 105 0 0 25
Tai languages 20 15 0 5 5
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 125 120 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 125 120 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 210 210 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 25 25 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 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 25 20 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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. 5 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Creoles 25 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 45 10 0 10 20
American Sign Language 20 5 0 10 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 15
Other languages 35 25 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,405 1,090 5 310 5
English and French 320 75 0 240 0
English and non-official language 1,005 960 0 40 10
French and non-official language 70 40 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011031.

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