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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 DuncanFootnote 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 42,655 40,450 425 380 1,350 0 10 40 0
Single responses 42,310 40,200 410 370 1,280 0 10 40 0
English 38,625 37,870 35 220 480 0 0 15 0
French 545 350 45 140 5 0 10 0 0
Non-official languages 3,145 1,985 335 5 795 0 0 20 0
Aboriginal languages 290 195 0 0 95 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 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 280 185 0 0 90 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 250 165 0 0 90 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 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. 25 20 0 0 5 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 5 5 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 0 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 215 120 20 0 65 0 0 5 0
Italian 75 50 5 0 15 0 5 0 0
Portuguese 45 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Spanish 90 40 15 0 25 5 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 1,145 770 65 0 300 0 0 15 0
Dutch 405 270 15 5 115 0 0 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 570 380 40 0 145 0 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 145 100 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Danish 95 65 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 265 200 10 0 55 0 0 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 30 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 85 80 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 100 65 5 0 25 0 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 45 30 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 35 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 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 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 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 620 335 150 0 130 0 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 595 320 145 0 120 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 5 0 0 5 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) 565 310 145 0 115 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 10 5 0 5 0 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 5 5 0 0 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 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 40 25 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 60 35 15 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 185 120 30 0 35 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 175 115 30 0 30 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 65 45 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 5 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 90 60 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 20 20 0 5 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 25 20 0 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 115 50 15 0 50 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 95 45 10 0 40 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 5 0 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 345 245 10 20 70 0 0 5 0
English and French 65 50 0 15 5 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 260 180 10 0 65 0 0 5 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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