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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 and Forward Sortation Areas, 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 L4B
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 35,260 29,970 15 2,410 2,865
Single responses 33,935 28,850 10 2,215 2,855
English 9,460 8,535 0 900 30
French 145 15 0 130 0
Non-official languages 24,335 20,305 10 1,185 2,825
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 0 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 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 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. 0 0 0 0 5
Romance languages 970 800 0 140 30
Italian 485 430 5 40 10
Portuguese 60 55 0 10 0
Romanian 160 90 0 55 15
Spanish 270 220 0 40 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 120 105 0 10 0
Dutch 20 20 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 70 60 0 10 0
Yiddish 25 25 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,065 930 0 75 60
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 5 0
Czech 15 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 60 55 0 0 5
Polish 100 95 0 5 0
Russian 715 620 0 50 45
Serbian 75 65 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 5
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 340 310 0 15 10
Armenian 310 220 0 75 15
Albanian 30 25 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 65 0 5 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 60 0 10 0
Turkic languages 145 130 0 0 10
Azerbaijani 35 30 0 0 0
Turkish 105 100 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 925 730 0 155 40
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0 10 5
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 30 20 0 10 0
Semitic languages 900 710 0 145 40
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 825 645 0 140 40
Hebrew 55 55 0 5 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,595 4,120 5 220 250
Indo-Aryan languages 1,435 1,315 0 65 55
Bengali 50 45 0 5 0
Gujarati 420 375 0 25 10
Hindi 275 255 0 5 10
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 15 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 185 175 0 5 5
Sindhi 85 80 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 385 350 0 15 15
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 3,155 2,800 0 155 195
Kurdish 20 15 0 5 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,125 2,780 5 155 195
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 260 240 0 5 15
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 190 175 0 10 10
Telugu 20 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 70 65 0 5 10
Korean 1,015 885 0 30 100
Sino-Tibetan languages 13,770 11,110 0 405 2,255
Chinese languages 13,755 11,095 0 400 2,255
Cantonese 6,260 5,095 0 190 970
Chaochow (Teochow) 25 20 0 0 15
Fukien 90 80 0 0 10
Hakka 65 45 0 5 10
Mandarin 2,315 1,785 0 70 465
Shanghainese 40 25 0 0 15
Taiwanese 105 70 0 5 30
Chinese, n.o.s. 4,855 3,980 0 135 740
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 15 0 0 5
Lao 15 10 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 125 90 0 20 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 120 90 0 20 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 425 410 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 90 85 0 0 5
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 310 305 0 5 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 30 25 0 0 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 20 5 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,325 1,115 0 195 15
English and French 45 5 0 40 0
English and non-official language 1,195 1,090 0 90 15
French and non-official language 55 15 5 35 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 25 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011032.


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