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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Other Languages Spoken Regularly at Home (9) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other languages spoken regularly at home and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Medicine Hat
Detailed mother tongue (232) Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Total - Other language spoken regularly at home None English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed mother tongue 71,815 68,730 980 485 1,560 0 20 40 0
Single responses 71,270 68,305 960 455 1,495 0 15 25 0
English 64,385 63,765 40 265 300 0 0 10 0
French 830 560 80 185 5 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 6,050 3,980 835 10 1,190 0 20 15 0
Aboriginal languages 25 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 735 425 135 5 175 0 0 5 0
Italian 75 50 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 40 25 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Romanian 40 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Spanish 590 330 125 0 130 0 0 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,015 2,190 330 0 490 5 0 5 0
Dutch 245 165 5 0 70 0 0 0 0
Flemish 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 2,655 1,960 305 0 390 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 35 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 45 15 20 0 10 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 565 385 50 0 125 0 0 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 80 50 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 45 35 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Czech 20 10 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 120 80 15 0 25 0 0 0 0
Russian 75 50 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Serbian 20 15 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 150 120 5 0 25 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 40 20 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 25 20 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 90 65 5 0 20 0 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 75 55 5 0 15 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 5 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 210 120 35 0 50 0 5 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 30 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 15 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 160 95 35 0 35 0 5 0 0
Amharic 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 145 75 30 0 30 0 5 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 220 110 60 0 50 0 5 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 190 90 55 0 40 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 40 20 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 15 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 55 20 20 0 15 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 5 0 0 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
Pashto 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 10 5 0 10 0 0 5 0
Korean 45 20 20 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 375 220 75 0 70 0 5 0 0
Chinese languages 355 215 70 0 70 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 70 35 15 0 20 0 5 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 20 15 0 5 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 245 160 40 0 45 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 125 120 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 115 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 40 15 0 30 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 25 15 0 20 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 280 130 60 0 85 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 255 120 55 0 80 0 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 35 5 0 25 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 35 15 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 50 25 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 545 425 20 30 60 0 0 5 0
English and French 105 75 0 25 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 410 325 20 0 60 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 30 15 5 5 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011041.

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