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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 SherbrookeFootnote 1
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 199,185 179,925 10,750 5,250 2,510 255 375 105 10
Single responses 196,860 178,455 10,330 5,030 2,370 230 345 90 10
English 9,740 6,550 1,145 1,945 65 5 5 25 0
French 178,035 167,440 8,820 790 765 15 205 5 0
Non-official languages 9,085 4,470 365 2,290 1,545 215 135 65 5
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 5 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 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 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 3,340 1,465 90 1,165 435 105 55 20 5
Italian 185 105 10 20 40 0 10 5 0
Portuguese 175 75 5 55 25 0 0 5 0
Romanian 145 55 10 45 20 5 5 5 0
Spanish 2,820 1,230 60 1,035 350 95 45 10 0
Catalan 15 10 5 0 5 5 0 0 5
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 285 130 40 25 70 5 5 10 0
Dutch 60 25 15 5 15 0 0 0 0
Flemish 10 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 190 90 20 20 50 5 5 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,405 730 35 360 230 25 20 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 145 55 5 55 25 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 25 10 0 5 10 0 0 0 0
Croatian 65 40 5 5 10 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 10 0 10 10 0 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 130 55 5 40 30 0 5 0 0
Russian 130 50 5 30 30 0 0 0 0
Serbian 430 255 5 110 45 10 5 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 400 220 5 110 50 10 0 0 0
Slovak 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 5 5 0 10 0 5 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 10 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 30 10 10 15 10 5 0 0
Armenian 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 45 15 5 10 15 0 5 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 10 5 10 10 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages 50 30 5 10 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 45 30 5 10 0 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,355 635 40 335 315 10 20 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 50 20 0 15 20 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 75 30 0 15 25 0 0 0 0
Oromo 65 30 0 15 20 5 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages 1,195 575 35 290 260 10 20 5 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 1,180 570 35 290 260 10 15 5 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 30 10 0 10 15 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,035 700 45 155 85 30 15 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 275 210 30 10 15 10 5 0 0
Bengali 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 215 175 20 10 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 750 490 15 145 65 20 10 0 0
Kurdish 20 10 0 5 0 0 0 5 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 730 475 15 145 65 15 10 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 5 0 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 15 5 5 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 35 10 5 5 5 5 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 280 150 50 30 35 10 0 0 0
Chinese languages 275 145 50 30 35 10 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 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 60 35 10 10 10 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. 190 95 45 15 25 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 30 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 225 120 15 45 35 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 55 20 0 20 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 170 100 10 30 25 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 65 30 5 15 15 5 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 25 10 0 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 620 265 15 100 225 5 5 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 485 200 10 80 175 5 10 5 0
Lingala 45 30 0 5 10 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 155 60 5 25 65 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 70 20 10 5 35 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 140 55 0 30 40 0 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 40 0 15 15 0 5 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 40 20 0 5 15 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 20 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Ewe 20 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 35 5 5 15 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Creoles 120 70 5 15 30 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,325 1,470 420 220 140 25 35 20 5
English and French 1,555 995 385 155 15 0 5 5 0
English and non-official language 105 55 10 10 20 5 5 5 5
French and non-official language 590 390 25 55 90 10 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 75 35 5 5 10 10 5 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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

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