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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 V5H
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 35,760 30,315 35 1,890 3,525
Single responses 34,545 29,295 30 1,715 3,510
English 10,505 9,755 0 725 25
French 260 20 10 235 0
Non-official languages 23,780 19,520 20 760 3,480
Aboriginal languages 10 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 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,470 1,210 10 170 90
Italian 230 200 0 25 5
Portuguese 205 180 0 20 5
Romanian 255 170 0 75 10
Spanish 775 665 5 45 65
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 440 405 0 30 0
Dutch 60 55 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 310 295 0 20 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 50 45 0 5 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 20 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,325 2,050 5 150 120
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 65 60 0 0 5
Bulgarian 75 60 5 10 0
Croatian 240 210 0 15 15
Czech 50 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 5 5
Polish 200 190 0 10 0
Russian 855 735 0 45 75
Serbian 555 485 0 50 15
Serbo-Croatian 120 105 0 15 5
Slovak 25 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 110 100 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 60 0 0 0
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0
Albanian 70 65 0 10 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 205 170 0 10 25
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 45 40 0 0 0
Hungarian 150 120 0 10 20
Turkic languages 180 150 0 5 25
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 115 95 0 5 15
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 65 50 0 0 15
Mongolian 15 15 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 565 475 0 35 55
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0 5
Semitic languages 535 445 5 35 55
Amharic 60 60 0 0 0
Arabic 450 360 0 30 55
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,790 1,570 0 65 155
Indo-Aryan languages 1,005 920 0 30 55
Bengali 70 65 0 0 0
Gujarati 120 110 0 5 5
Hindi 310 285 0 10 10
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 50 45 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 375 335 0 15 25
Sindhi 30 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 35 35 0 0 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 780 640 0 40 105
Kurdish 140 110 0 0 35
Pashto 15 15 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 625 520 0 35 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 170 150 0 5 10
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 0
Tamil 55 55 0 0 0
Telugu 70 60 0 5 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 425 385 0 10 30
Korean 1,325 1,125 0 25 185
Sino-Tibetan languages 12,870 9,950 0 195 2,720
Chinese languages 12,855 9,940 5 195 2,715
Cantonese 2,575 1,960 0 55 560
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 5 0 0 5
Fukien 40 40 0 0 5
Hakka 35 25 0 0 10
Mandarin 5,505 4,280 0 70 1,155
Shanghainese 80 45 0 0 35
Taiwanese 290 200 0 10 75
Chinese, n.o.s. 4,320 3,390 5 60 870
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 60 55 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 55 50 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 215 165 0 5 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 0 5
Vietnamese 200 155 0 10 35
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,490 1,460 0 10 20
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malay 135 130 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,210 1,190 0 10 10
Bikol 15 10 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 40 35 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 20 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 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. 5 0 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,215 1,020 5 175 10
English and French 60 10 0 50 0
English and non-official language 1,060 990 0 55 10
French and non-official language 65 20 0 45 5
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 25 0

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


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