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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Laval - Les Îles
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 123,725 31,900 74,010 14,545 3,270 39,170 31.7
Single responses 112,805 28,285 68,995 12,255 3,265 34,415 30.5
English 23,090 21,710 1,380 0 0 21,710 94.0
French 63,575 855 62,720 0 0 860 1.4
Non-official languages 26,135 5,720 4,895 12,255 3,270 11,845 45.3
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 4,200 220 1,350 2,230 400 1,335 31.8
Italian 360 30 85 200 35 135 37.5
Portuguese 590 50 230 210 95 155 26.3
Romanian 1,665 50 440 1,050 125 575 34.5
Spanish 1,585 90 585 770 145 475 30.0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 125 80 5 35 5 95 76.0
Dutch 5 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Flemish 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 105 70 0 30 5 90 85.7
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0 5 50.0
Scandinavian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,180 225 220 640 95 545 46.2
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 5 0 5 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 160 5 30 110 10 65 40.6
Croatian 85 35 0 40 10 55 64.7
Czech 15 0 0 15 0 10 66.7
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Polish 160 45 25 80 10 85 53.1
Russian 670 125 140 350 55 295 44.0
Serbian 55 5 10 35 0 25 45.5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 0 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Slovenian 5 5 0 5 0 5 100.0
Ukrainian 10 0 0 0 5 5 50.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Baltic languages 15 5 5 5 5 10 66.7
Latvian 10 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0 5 100.0
Greek 5,340 2,530 70 1,800 945 3,425 64.1
Armenian 4,155 495 350 2,950 365 1,965 47.3
Albanian 30 5 5 15 5 10 33.3
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 170 45 25 80 10 85 50.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 165 45 25 80 10 85 51.5
Turkic languages 155 25 35 70 25 55 35.5
Azerbaijani 15 0 0 10 0 5 33.3
Turkish 140 25 30 60 25 55 39.3
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,320 495 1,715 2,610 495 1,800 33.8
Berber languages (Kabyle) 30 0 20 10 5 5 16.7
Cushitic languages 40 0 20 10 10 10 25.0
Oromo 35 0 15 15 5 10 28.6
Somali 5 0 0 0 0 5 100.0
Semitic languages 5,250 495 1,680 2,585 485 1,785 34.0
Amharic 10 0 0 10 0 10 100.0
Arabic 5,170 475 1,660 2,550 485 1,750 33.8
Hebrew 50 10 20 20 0 25 50.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 0 5 50.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0 5 50.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0 5 50.0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,495 925 270 845 465 1,340 53.7
Indo-Aryan languages 1,485 745 50 445 240 970 65.3
Bengali 55 30 0 20 5 40 72.7
Gujarati 145 80 0 30 35 90 62.1
Hindi 60 35 5 15 0 45 75.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Panjabi (Punjabi) 800 410 25 225 145 520 65.0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0 15 100.0
Urdu 415 185 15 160 50 265 63.9
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iranian languages 990 165 215 390 225 360 36.4
Kurdish 20 5 5 10 5 10 50.0
Pashto 50 20 5 15 10 25 50.0
Persian (Farsi) 925 145 205 370 210 325 35.1
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 5 0 10 50.0
Dravidian languages 620 300 40 210 80 400 64.5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tamil 620 295 40 205 75 400 64.5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Korean 30 10 0 10 10 10 33.3
Sino-Tibetan languages 675 205 105 240 125 325 48.1
Chinese languages 675 205 105 240 130 325 48.1
Cantonese 65 25 5 30 15 35 53.8
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 105 30 15 50 15 50 47.6
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 500 155 85 160 100 235 47.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 370 15 190 110 60 65 17.6
Lao 360 10 185 110 55 65 18.1
Thai 10 5 5 0 5 5 50.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 805 95 295 290 120 240 29.8
Khmer (Cambodian) 420 30 190 130 70 95 22.6
Vietnamese 380 60 105 165 50 145 38.2
Malayo-Polynesian languages 65 40 5 15 5 50 76.9
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 5 5 50.0
Malay 10 5 5 0 0 5 50.0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 40 30 0 10 5 35 87.5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 60 10 10 35 0 25 41.7
Akan (Twi) 20 10 0 10 0 15 75.0
Bantu languages 10 0 5 5 0 0 0.0
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 5 0 0 10 0 5 100.0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 5 5 15 0 5 25.0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Creoles 295 5 185 75 35 40 13.6
Non-verbal languages 25 5 15 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 5 0 0 0 0.0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 10 0 10 5 25.0
Other languages 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 10,915 3,610 5,015 2,295 0 4,760 43.6
English and French 1,990 370 745 870 0 805 40.5
English and non-official language 3,080 3,040 35 0 0 3,040 98.7
French and non-official language 3,930 20 3,910 0 0 20 0.5
English, French and non-official language 1,920 180 320 1,420 0 890 46.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011040.

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