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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), 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 detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Halifax
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 90,460 76,480 70 13,570 340
Single responses 89,345 75,835 60 13,125 330
English 78,140 67,780 5 10,350 10
French 2,110 180 35 1,890 0
Non-official languages 9,095 7,875 15 885 320
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 35 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 30 25 0 5 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 655 495 0 150 10
Italian 175 125 0 40 0
Portuguese 65 55 0 15 0
Romanian 40 25 0 15 5
Spanish 375 290 0 80 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 630 455 0 170 5
Dutch 125 85 0 40 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 400 295 0 105 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 75 55 0 20 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 5 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 5
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 775 645 0 110 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5 0
Croatian 65 55 0 10 0
Czech 70 55 0 10 5
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 190 145 0 35 10
Russian 245 205 0 30 15
Serbian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0 0
Slovak 50 45 0 10 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Baltic languages 25 15 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 300 260 0 25 15
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0
Albanian 45 40 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 70 50 0 15 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 5 0
Hungarian 35 25 0 15 0
Turkic languages 145 125 0 5 10
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 120 105 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 10
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,040 1,760 5 190 75
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 35 0 0 5
Oromo 15 10 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,000 1,725 10 190 75
Amharic 80 70 0 5 5
Arabic 1,850 1,595 5 175 70
Hebrew 30 25 0 10 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,150 1,030 0 70 45
Indo-Aryan languages 625 560 0 40 20
Bengali 165 155 0 10 5
Gujarati 30 30 0 0 0
Hindi 170 155 0 15 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 70 65 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 120 105 0 10 5
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 505 450 0 25 30
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 495 440 5 25 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 210 195 0 10 0
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 5 0
Tamil 115 110 0 5 0
Telugu 50 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 120 105 0 10 5
Korean 225 205 0 10 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,870 1,730 5 55 90
Chinese languages 1,860 1,715 5 55 90
Cantonese 185 150 0 15 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 5 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 425 400 0 10 15
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,225 1,145 0 25 55
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 5 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 120 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 130 115 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 350 345 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 305 300 0 0 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 190 145 5 40 5
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 95 70 0 25 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 15 10 0 5 0
Swahili 35 20 0 10 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 10 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 10 0
African languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,115 645 10 450 10
English and French 405 75 0 325 0
English and non-official language 590 525 0 55 5
French and non-official language 90 35 15 45 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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