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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 V3N
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 36,820 32,650 25 1,890 2,255
Single responses 35,450 31,435 20 1,755 2,245
English 14,980 14,070 0 885 25
French 280 30 5 245 5
Non-official languages 20,185 17,330 15 620 2,220
Aboriginal languages 10 10 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 5 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 1,515 1,270 0 160 85
Italian 210 190 0 20 0
Portuguese 240 215 0 10 15
Romanian 195 125 0 55 10
Spanish 865 735 5 75 55
Catalan 0 5 0 5 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 330 300 0 25 5
Dutch 75 70 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 205 195 0 10 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 35 0 0 5
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 10 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,620 1,445 0 90 85
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 80 70 0 5 10
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 5
Croatian 155 145 0 5 5
Czech 35 35 0 0 5
Macedonian 5 10 0 0 0
Polish 280 245 0 20 10
Russian 490 410 0 30 45
Serbian 390 360 0 20 10
Serbo-Croatian 60 60 0 5 0
Slovak 25 30 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 50 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 5
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 50 40 0 0 5
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0
Albanian 65 60 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 165 155 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 130 125 0 0 5
Turkic languages 70 70 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 35 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 460 385 0 30 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 55 50 0 0 5
Oromo 35 25 0 0 5
Somali 25 20 0 0 5
Semitic languages 405 335 0 25 35
Amharic 60 60 0 0 0
Arabic 315 250 0 30 40
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,960 3,470 0 90 390
Indo-Aryan languages 2,950 2,595 0 65 285
Bengali 65 65 0 5 0
Gujarati 250 220 0 10 25
Hindi 515 475 5 10 20
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 35 30 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,850 1,585 0 25 235
Sindhi 55 50 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 5 0
Urdu 150 140 0 5 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 995 860 0 25 105
Kurdish 45 35 0 0 10
Pashto 70 65 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 880 760 0 20 95
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 130 120 0 0 5
Kannada 10 10 0 5 0
Malayalam 25 20 0 0 0
Tamil 85 80 0 0 5
Telugu 10 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 285 250 0 10 20
Korean 1,385 1,175 0 20 190
Sino-Tibetan languages 7,395 5,980 0 120 1,300
Chinese languages 7,360 5,940 0 115 1,300
Cantonese 2,275 1,830 0 35 415
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 0
Fukien 55 45 0 5 5
Hakka 20 15 0 0 0
Mandarin 2,470 2,005 0 50 415
Shanghainese 30 20 0 0 10
Taiwanese 115 85 0 0 25
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,390 1,930 0 30 425
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 25 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 290 230 0 10 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 280 225 0 10 45
Malayo-Polynesian languages 2,230 2,180 5 20 20
Bisayan languages 85 80 0 0 5
Ilocano 70 65 0 0 5
Malay 165 155 0 0 5
Pampango 30 25 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,850 1,825 0 15 15
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 110 75 5 30 5
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages 60 40 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 30 20 0 10 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 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. 30 20 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 5 10
Creoles 15 10 0 0 5
Non-verbal languages 10 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,370 1,220 5 140 10
English and French 55 5 0 50 0
English and non-official language 1,245 1,185 0 60 5
French and non-official language 50 25 5 20 5
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0

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


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