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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 L4L
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 54,610 49,480 50 2,460 2,625
Single responses 52,650 47,705 40 2,285 2,620
English 23,965 22,965 5 975 20
French 205 20 5 175 0
Non-official languages 28,480 24,725 25 1,135 2,595
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 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 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 0
Romance languages 20,310 17,525 25 835 1,935
Italian 18,005 15,510 15 690 1,790
Portuguese 680 590 0 40 50
Romanian 315 235 0 60 20
Spanish 1,310 1,185 5 45 75
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 270 245 0 25 5
Dutch 50 50 0 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 185 170 0 15 5
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 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 1,550 1,395 0 70 85
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 65 60 0 0 5
Croatian 240 225 0 10 5
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 120 115 0 0 5
Polish 290 260 0 20 15
Russian 520 445 0 30 45
Serbian 95 85 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 65 65 0 5 0
Ukrainian 85 80 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 20 25 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Greek 350 335 0 5 15
Armenian 50 35 0 10 0
Albanian 165 155 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 115 110 0 5 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 105 100 0 5 0
Turkic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 55 50 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 820 725 5 35 60
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 795 700 0 35 60
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 450 400 0 30 20
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 80 75 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 230 185 0 5 35
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,880 2,480 0 105 295
Indo-Aryan languages 2,455 2,120 0 85 245
Bengali 30 25 0 5 0
Gujarati 205 175 0 15 15
Hindi 260 240 0 15 10
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,635 1,375 0 45 210
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0
Urdu 290 275 0 5 15
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 425 355 0 20 45
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 405 345 0 20 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 310 280 0 10 25
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 0
Tamil 260 230 0 10 25
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0 5
Korean 175 160 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 450 375 0 15 60
Chinese languages 445 370 0 15 65
Cantonese 150 125 0 0 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 85 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 185 150 0 10 25
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 520 435 0 15 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 505 420 0 10 70
Malayo-Polynesian languages 330 325 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 300 295 0 0 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 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 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 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. 15 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 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. 10 0 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,960 1,770 10 175 5
English and French 45 5 5 35 0
English and non-official language 1,805 1,710 5 85 5
French and non-official language 85 50 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 5 20 0

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


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