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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, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 Halifax
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 90,590 76,590 70 13,585 345
Single responses 89,470 75,940 55 13,135 330
English 78,260 67,885 0 10,355 10
French 2,110 180 40 1,890 0
Non-official languages 9,095 7,875 20 885 320
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 35 30 0 5 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 25 25 0 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 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. 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 660 495 0 150 10
Italian 175 130 0 40 0
Portuguese 65 55 0 15 0
Romanian 45 25 0 15 5
Spanish 375 285 0 80 5
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 635 460 0 170 0
Dutch 125 80 5 40 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 400 290 0 105 5
Yiddish 15 15 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 75 55 0 20 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 775 645 0 110 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 65 55 0 10 0
Czech 70 60 0 10 5
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 190 150 0 35 5
Russian 240 200 0 30 15
Serbian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 30 35 0 5 0
Slovak 50 45 0 10 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 300 260 0 20 15
Armenian 20 10 0 5 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 55 0 15 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 20 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 40 25 0 15 0
Turkic languages 145 125 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 115 105 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,040 1,760 10 195 75
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 5
Oromo 15 10 0 0 0
Somali 20 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,000 1,730 5 190 70
Amharic 80 70 0 5 5
Arabic 1,845 1,595 5 180 70
Hebrew 30 20 0 5 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 25 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,150 1,035 5 65 50
Indo-Aryan languages 620 560 0 40 15
Bengali 165 155 0 10 5
Gujarati 30 30 0 5 0
Hindi 170 150 0 15 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 75 65 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 5 0
Urdu 120 105 0 10 5
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 505 455 0 25 30
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 495 440 0 25 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 210 200 0 5 0
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 5
Tamil 115 110 0 0 0
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 120 105 0 5 10
Korean 220 205 0 10 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,870 1,725 0 50 90
Chinese languages 1,865 1,720 0 50 90
Cantonese 190 155 0 15 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 425 400 0 10 15
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,225 1,145 5 20 60
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 120 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 125 110 5 5 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 350 345 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 305 300 0 0 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 195 145 0 35 0
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 100 65 5 25 0
Lingala 5 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 10 0 5 0
Swahili 35 25 0 10 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 20 5 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 10 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 40 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 5 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
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 1,120 650 15 450 10
English and French 410 75 0 325 0
English and non-official language 595 530 0 55 10
French and non-official language 90 35 15 45 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 25 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011055.

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