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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 M3M
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 23,705 21,240 25 860 1,570
Single responses 22,750 20,380 25 785 1,560
English 10,540 10,195 0 325 15
French 165 25 15 120 0
Non-official languages 12,050 10,160 10 335 1,545
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 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 0
Romance languages 6,165 5,060 0 175 925
Italian 3,135 2,510 0 90 530
Portuguese 490 420 5 20 55
Romanian 105 75 0 15 15
Spanish 2,430 2,055 0 45 330
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 100 105 0 0 0
Dutch 5 10 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 80 75 0 5 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 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 490 440 0 10 40
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 65 55 0 5 0
Czech 25 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 5 0
Polish 160 145 0 5 10
Russian 155 135 0 5 15
Serbian 20 15 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 85 75 0 5 5
Armenian 20 15 0 0 0
Albanian 45 35 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 140 120 0 0 20
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 130 115 0 0 15
Turkic languages 220 180 0 0 40
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 215 175 0 5 40
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 455 380 0 50 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 75 70 0 10 0
Oromo 20 20 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 0 5 5
Semitic languages 380 310 0 45 30
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 230 175 0 40 20
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 45 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 75 70 0 0 10
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 675 600 0 20 60
Indo-Aryan languages 450 415 0 10 25
Bengali 45 45 0 0 0
Gujarati 185 165 0 5 10
Hindi 45 40 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 80 75 0 0 5
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 225 185 0 10 30
Kurdish 45 35 0 0 10
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 170 145 0 10 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 195 170 0 5 20
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 160 140 0 0 20
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0 0
Korean 65 50 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 595 445 0 15 140
Chinese languages 590 440 0 10 140
Cantonese 255 185 0 10 70
Chaochow (Teochow) 15 10 0 5 5
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 40 35 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 270 205 0 0 55
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 40 0 0 5
Lao 35 30 0 5 0
Thai 5 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,025 795 5 15 210
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 40 0 5 5
Vietnamese 980 750 0 15 210
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,300 1,270 0 5 25
Bisayan languages 50 50 0 0 0
Ilocano 125 120 0 0 5
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,100 1,080 0 10 15
Bikol 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 310 295 0 10 10
Akan (Twi) 195 190 0 0 5
Bantu languages 45 35 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 10 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 45 0 0 5
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Creoles 45 35 5 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 955 865 0 80 10
English and French 30 5 0 25 0
English and non-official language 880 840 0 25 10
French and non-official language 20 10 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 20 0

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


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