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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 V5E
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 25,960 22,815 25 1,220 1,895
Single responses 25,205 22,160 20 1,135 1,890
English 10,335 9,750 0 560 25
French 180 20 10 155 0
Non-official languages 14,685 12,390 5 420 1,870
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 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 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 1,035 925 0 75 40
Italian 275 250 0 25 0
Portuguese 185 165 0 10 5
Romanian 125 95 0 20 5
Spanish 455 410 0 20 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 290 265 0 25 0
Dutch 55 45 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 190 175 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 35 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 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 1,215 1,070 5 70 75
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 105 100 0 0 5
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 150 140 0 0 10
Czech 45 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 125 110 0 5 5
Russian 340 290 0 25 25
Serbian 295 245 0 30 20
Serbo-Croatian 55 50 0 5 5
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 50 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 5
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 60 0 5 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 50 45 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 105 100 0 5 0
Estonian 15 20 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 65 65 0 5 0
Turkic languages 80 70 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 55 45 5 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 400 315 0 35 50
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 20 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 370 290 0 30 50
Amharic 75 75 0 5 5
Arabic 215 145 0 25 40
Hebrew 10 5 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 70 60 0 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,865 1,645 0 50 165
Indo-Aryan languages 1,220 1,105 0 30 85
Bengali 80 70 0 5 5
Gujarati 170 165 0 0 0
Hindi 230 215 0 10 10
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 625 540 0 15 70
Sindhi 65 60 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 0 5
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 635 535 0 15 80
Kurdish 25 25 0 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 590 495 0 15 80
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 95 75 0 0 15
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0
Tamil 70 55 0 0 10
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 295 255 0 5 35
Korean 965 790 0 15 165
Sino-Tibetan languages 6,750 5,380 0 110 1,260
Chinese languages 6,740 5,370 5 110 1,260
Cantonese 1,775 1,425 0 35 310
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 5 0 0 0
Fukien 55 45 0 0 5
Hakka 20 15 0 0 5
Mandarin 2,635 2,095 0 45 490
Shanghainese 15 10 0 0 10
Taiwanese 210 145 0 0 60
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,025 1,625 0 20 375
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 25 25 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 220 185 0 5 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 215 185 0 5 30
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,125 1,095 0 15 10
Bisayan languages 40 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 40 0 0 0
Malay 60 60 0 5 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 940 920 0 10 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 40 25 0 0 15
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 20 0 0 15
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 20 5 0 0 10
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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. 5 5 5 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
Creoles 15 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0
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 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 755 660 0 85 10
English and French 40 10 0 30 0
English and non-official language 665 630 0 30 5
French and non-official language 35 15 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 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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