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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 M3C
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 37,915 33,100 50 2,765 1,990
Single responses 36,160 31,590 55 2,545 1,975
English 14,145 13,095 0 1,025 30
French 510 40 15 455 0
Non-official languages 21,500 18,460 35 1,065 1,940
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 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 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 0
Romance languages 1,480 1,190 0 185 115
Italian 95 85 0 5 0
Portuguese 125 110 0 10 5
Romanian 415 295 0 100 20
Spanish 845 695 0 60 85
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 340 305 0 30 0
Dutch 55 40 0 10 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 240 215 0 20 0
Yiddish 15 15 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 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 1,780 1,490 0 130 170
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 185 150 0 20 15
Croatian 45 40 0 0 0
Czech 95 70 0 5 15
Macedonian 105 90 0 5 15
Polish 205 185 0 10 10
Russian 515 440 0 40 35
Serbian 390 340 0 25 20
Serbo-Croatian 40 35 0 5 0
Slovak 105 50 0 0 55
Slovenian 15 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 50 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 65 60 0 5 0
Latvian 60 55 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 810 715 0 35 65
Armenian 175 125 0 40 5
Albanian 190 165 0 5 20
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 385 320 0 25 40
Estonian 55 50 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 5 0
Hungarian 310 255 0 20 40
Turkic languages 385 330 0 15 35
Azerbaijani 35 35 0 0 0
Turkish 270 235 0 15 20
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 75 60 0 0 15
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,125 930 5 125 70
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 225 175 0 20 25
Oromo 50 45 0 0 5
Somali 180 135 0 20 20
Semitic languages 900 750 0 105 45
Amharic 175 165 0 5 0
Arabic 590 465 0 90 30
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 100 85 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 7,905 6,925 15 230 740
Indo-Aryan languages 5,240 4,730 10 140 370
Bengali 590 545 5 30 15
Gujarati 1,560 1,355 0 30 170
Hindi 450 415 5 15 20
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 40 40 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 205 185 0 10 15
Sindhi 380 345 0 10 25
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 45 0 5 5
Urdu 1,935 1,775 0 40 120
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Iranian languages 2,585 2,135 5 85 360
Kurdish 80 65 5 5 10
Pashto 390 325 0 10 50
Persian (Farsi) 2,120 1,745 5 70 300
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 75 65 0 5 10
Dravidian languages 1,290 1,120 0 40 135
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 1,165 995 0 40 130
Telugu 80 75 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 80 75 0 0 0
Korean 510 435 0 15 60
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,800 2,240 0 100 465
Chinese languages 2,790 2,220 5 100 460
Cantonese 700 535 0 25 140
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 960 760 0 25 175
Shanghainese 15 15 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,055 865 0 45 140
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 110 90 0 15 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 105 85 0 15 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,745 1,705 0 10 25
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 5 0
Ilocano 85 85 0 0 5
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,525 1,490 0 10 25
Bikol 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 255 195 5 50 10
Akan (Twi) 20 25 0 0 0
Bantu languages 180 130 5 35 5
Lingala 15 0 0 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 10 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 30 30 0 0 0
Swahili 70 55 5 10 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 10 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 25 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 25 15 5 10 5
Non-verbal languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,755 1,510 5 225 20
English and French 75 15 0 65 0
English and non-official language 1,570 1,455 0 85 20
French and non-official language 70 20 0 45 5
English, French and non-official language 45 20 0 30 0

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


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