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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 V4WFootnote 1
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 19,310 18,085 5 895 330
Single responses 19,135 17,950 5 860 330
English 16,325 15,700 0 625 0
French 185 30 5 155 0
Non-official languages 2,625 2,215 0 85 330
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 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 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 240 175 0 15 50
Italian 55 50 0 0 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 5 0
Romanian 25 25 0 0 5
Spanish 130 75 0 10 50
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 640 620 0 15 0
Dutch 190 185 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 385 375 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 35 30 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 175 165 0 5 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 5 5
Croatian 20 15 0 0 0
Czech 25 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 35 30 0 0 5
Russian 30 30 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 35 0 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 30 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 700 575 0 20 110
Indo-Aryan languages 685 560 0 15 110
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 25 20 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 650 520 0 15 110
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 15 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 0 0
Korean 65 60 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 155 130 0 5 20
Chinese languages 160 130 0 5 20
Cantonese 20 10 0 5 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 5 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 50 0 0 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 0 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 65 60 0 0 5
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 5
Lao 20 15 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 430 295 0 20 120
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 425 285 0 20 115
Malayo-Polynesian languages 70 70 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 60 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 10 5 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 5 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 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 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 175 135 0 35 5
English and French 25 5 0 20 0
English and non-official language 135 125 0 5 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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


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