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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 N2M
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 32,585 29,705 15 2,110 755
Single responses 32,040 29,240 15 2,035 750
English 22,620 21,360 0 1,245 15
French 455 55 10 400 0
Non-official languages 8,965 7,830 5 390 735
Aboriginal languages 10 5 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 5 5 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 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,025 1,720 0 125 175
Italian 65 60 0 5 5
Portuguese 440 360 0 15 65
Romanian 540 440 0 60 40
Spanish 975 865 0 40 65
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 980 940 0 40 10
Dutch 105 100 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 860 815 0 30 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 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 5 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 1,575 1,385 0 90 105
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 105 95 0 5 5
Bulgarian 20 20 0 5 0
Croatian 135 125 0 5 10
Czech 25 20 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0 0
Polish 365 330 0 20 15
Russian 130 110 0 20 5
Serbian 515 445 0 20 55
Serbo-Croatian 95 80 0 5 5
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 85 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 0 0
Greek 75 60 0 5 10
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 135 115 0 5 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 145 135 0 5 5
Estonian 5 10 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 135 125 0 5 0
Turkic languages 80 75 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 75 65 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,120 935 0 40 140
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 225 195 0 5 25
Oromo 40 40 0 0 10
Somali 185 160 0 0 20
Semitic languages 890 735 0 40 115
Amharic 145 130 0 5 5
Arabic 535 425 0 25 80
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 150 130 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 55 40 0 0 15
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,375 1,205 0 30 140
Indo-Aryan languages 730 660 0 20 50
Bengali 135 120 0 5 10
Gujarati 140 120 0 0 15
Hindi 55 50 0 5 5
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 145 130 0 5 5
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 220 195 0 0 15
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 610 515 0 15 85
Kurdish 55 45 0 5 10
Pashto 45 45 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 505 425 0 5 75
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 55 50 0 0 5
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 25 20 0 0 5
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Korean 50 45 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 505 425 0 25 50
Chinese languages 485 405 0 30 45
Cantonese 65 45 0 10 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 145 130 0 0 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 270 230 0 15 30
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tai languages 150 135 0 5 10
Lao 140 130 0 5 10
Thai 10 10 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 295 240 0 5 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 45 0 0 5
Vietnamese 240 195 0 5 45
Malayo-Polynesian languages 95 95 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 80 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 80 70 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 60 50 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 5 0 0 0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0
Swahili 20 25 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 80 80 0 0 0
Creoles 25 20 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 60 45 0 0 10
Multiple responses 545 465 0 75 0
English and French 55 15 0 45 0
English and non-official language 450 430 0 20 0
French and non-official language 25 20 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 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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