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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 M9L
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 11,990 10,500 15 375 1,105
Single responses 11,515 10,070 15 335 1,095
English 4,070 3,925 0 135 10
French 35 0 0 35 0
Non-official languages 7,410 6,145 10 165 1,085
Aboriginal languages 5 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 5 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 2,970 2,390 0 60 510
Italian 2,215 1,745 0 45 430
Portuguese 110 85 0 10 20
Romanian 25 25 0 5 0
Spanish 615 540 5 10 65
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 50 50 0 0 0
Dutch 5 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 45 45 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 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 85 80 0 5 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 5 5
Russian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 40 35 0 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 15 0 0 10
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 10
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 480 425 0 0 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 70 70 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 75 70 0 0 0
Semitic languages 410 355 0 5 55
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 215 200 0 0 20
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 180 140 0 0 40
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,955 2,450 10 75 420
Indo-Aryan languages 2,830 2,355 5 65 400
Bengali 110 95 0 5 5
Gujarati 220 190 0 10 20
Hindi 160 140 5 5 15
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,305 1,015 0 45 245
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 1,025 895 0 10 120
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 115 90 0 5 15
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 5
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 80 0 10 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 155 140 0 0 10
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0
Tamil 130 120 0 0 15
Telugu 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 5
Korean 15 15 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 125 90 0 10 25
Chinese languages 120 85 0 10 25
Cantonese 50 40 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 10 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 35 0 10 15
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 280 235 0 5 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 5
Vietnamese 270 220 0 5 40
Malayo-Polynesian languages 100 100 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 85 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 75 70 0 5 5
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 475 430 0 40 10
English and French 10 5 0 10 0
English and non-official language 450 420 0 20 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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


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