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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 Guelph
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 121,085 117,780 1,570 370 1,370 1,750 1.4
Single responses 117,810 114,635 1,490 315 1,370 1,645 1.4
English 105,850 104,845 1,000 0 0 1,005 0.9
French 505 30 470 0 0 470 93.1
Non-official languages 11,455 9,760 20 315 1,365 175 1.5
Aboriginal languages 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
Algonquian 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
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 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
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 1,570 1,330 5 75 165 40 2.5
Italian 730 620 0 5 100 5 0.7
Portuguese 95 80 0 5 10 0 0.0
Romanian 140 100 0 25 15 10 7.1
Spanish 605 525 5 35 40 20 3.3
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 180 155 0 20 5 10 5.6
Dutch 50 45 0 5 0 0 0.0
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Frisian 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
German 95 80 0 10 5 5 5.3
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 5 100.0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 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
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0 5 50.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 5 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
Gaelic languages 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
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,420 1,265 0 60 95 30 2.1
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 55 55 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 50 50 0 0 0 5 10.0
Czech 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Polish 620 560 0 15 40 10 1.6
Russian 175 150 0 10 15 5 2.9
Serbian 335 290 0 20 25 10 3.0
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 10 10 0 5 5 0 0.0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 65 55 0 5 10 0 0.0
Slavic 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
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Latvian 5 5 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
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 65 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Armenian 30 20 5 5 5 5 16.7
Albanian 30 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 490 440 0 5 40 5 1.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 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
Hungarian 485 440 0 0 40 5 1.0
Turkic languages 305 265 0 5 35 5 1.6
Azerbaijani 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
Turkish 70 60 0 0 10 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 230 205 0 5 30 0 0.0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 420 365 0 15 40 10 2.4
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 35 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Oromo 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
Somali 35 25 0 0 10 0 0.0
Semitic languages 385 340 0 15 30 5 1.3
Amharic 80 70 0 0 10 0 0.0
Arabic 255 220 0 10 25 5 2.0
Hebrew 20 15 0 5 0 5 25.0
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 2,595 2,220 0 50 325 25 1.0
Indo-Aryan languages 1,920 1,650 0 35 235 15 0.8
Bengali 130 120 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 310 260 0 0 45 0 0.0
Hindi 140 130 0 5 5 5 3.6
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 930 755 0 20 160 5 0.5
Sindhi 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 55 55 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 315 285 0 10 20 5 1.6
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 660 555 0 10 85 10 1.5
Kurdish 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 110 100 0 5 5 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 540 450 0 10 80 5 0.9
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 235 220 0 0 15 5 2.1
Kannada 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 170 155 0 0 15 0 0.0
Telugu 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 130 110 0 5 20 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,975 1,615 5 35 320 20 1.0
Chinese languages 1,970 1,610 5 40 325 20 1.0
Cantonese 500 365 0 5 125 5 1.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fukien 0 5 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
Hakka 5 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Mandarin 485 425 0 15 50 5 1.0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 950 790 0 20 135 10 1.1
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. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai languages 115 95 0 5 15 5 4.3
Lao 90 75 0 5 15 5 5.6
Thai 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,260 985 0 15 260 10 0.8
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 50 0 5 20 5 7.1
Vietnamese 1,190 935 5 10 240 10 0.8
Malayo-Polynesian languages 490 480 0 5 15 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 425 415 0 0 10 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 45 30 5 10 5 10 22.2
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 5 5 5 16.7
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swahili 25 15 5 10 5 10 40.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 5 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
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 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
Non-verbal languages 40 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 15 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Other languages 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 3,275 3,140 75 55 0 105 3.2
English and French 125 30 55 45 0 75 60.0
English and non-official language 3,100 3,095 10 0 0 5 0.2
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0 0 5 33.3
English, French and non-official language 35 15 10 10 0 15 42.9

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not applicable

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too unreliable to be published

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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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