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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 Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
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 138,435 132,170 2,135 2,690 1,325 25 30 60 0
Single responses 137,685 131,645 2,095 2,585 1,260 25 30 50 0
English 127,630 125,580 105 1,605 320 0 5 25 0
French 5,190 3,195 1,025 960 15 0 5 0 0
Non-official languages 4,860 2,875 965 25 920 25 25 25 0
Aboriginal languages 105 50 5 5 45 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 105 50 5 0 45 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 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 100 45 10 0 45 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 5 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 0 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 0 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 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 350 170 80 5 90 5 0 5 0
Italian 60 35 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 45 25 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Romanian 20 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Spanish 225 95 65 0 60 0 0 5 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 880 540 125 5 200 0 0 10 0
Dutch 465 280 65 0 110 0 0 0 0
Flemish 25 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Frisian 25 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
German 295 200 35 5 50 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 45 25 10 0 15 0 0 5 0
Danish 25 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 20 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 330 145 60 0 105 5 5 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 15 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 35 5 0 15 5 0 0 0
Russian 105 40 15 0 40 0 5 0 0
Serbian 25 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 0
Slovak 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 95 50 35 0 10 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 75 35 15 0 25 0 5 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 60 25 15 0 20 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 320 165 60 5 80 5 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 25 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 30 20 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 290 140 55 5 75 5 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 265 135 50 5 70 10 0 5 0
Hebrew 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 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 495 305 110 5 80 0 5 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 290 170 60 5 55 0 5 0 0
Bengali 30 15 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 35 10 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 20 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 20 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Urdu 35 10 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Nepali 95 80 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 210 135 50 0 20 0 5 0 0
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 130 50 0 20 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 65 25 15 0 20 0 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Telugu 35 15 10 0 10 0 5 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 75 25 20 0 30 0 0 0 0
Korean 130 80 40 0 15 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,645 1,125 365 5 135 5 15 0 0
Chinese languages 1,595 1,095 360 5 120 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 100 60 20 0 20 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 295 175 85 0 25 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 15 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,185 855 250 5 75 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 35 20 0 0 5 0 10 0 0
Tai languages 10 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 25 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 30 5 0 10 0 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 125 65 25 0 30 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 55 30 0 30 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 25 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 15 5 0 0 10 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 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. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 745 525 40 105 65 5 0 10 0
English and French 440 315 25 105 5 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 255 185 15 0 50 0 0 5 0
French and non-official language 35 15 0 5 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 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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