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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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Sex (3)

Detailed language spoken most often at home (232)

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 Truro^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	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	45,340	44,270	210	420	430	0	0	15	0
Single responses	45,125	44,100	205	405	405	0	0	10	0
English	43,630	43,200	20	270	135	0	0	10	0
French	495	330	40	130	5	0	0	0	0
Non-official languages	995	570	150	5	270	0	0	5	0
Aboriginal languages	175	90	25	0	65	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	175	85	25	0	65	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	175	85	25	0	65	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	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	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.	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	55	35	10	0	15	0	0	0	0
Italian	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Portuguese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romanian	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spanish	40	20	5	0	10	0	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	265	175	15	0	65	0	0	0	0
Dutch	125	85	5	0	30	0	0	0	0
Flemish	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	15	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
German	110	70	10	0	30	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danish	5	5	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	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	5	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	55	30	5	0	20	0	0	0	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	15	10	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Russian	20	5	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	5	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	5	5	0	0	0	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	20	15	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Estonian	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	5	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	80	45	20	0	15	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	80	45	25	0	20	0	0	0	0
Amharic	10	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	70	40	15	0	15	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	5	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	110	45	35	0	35	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	85	40	20	0	20	0	0	0	0
Bengali	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	20	10	0	5	10	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)	15	10	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	10	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Urdu	25	5	10	0	5	0	0	0	0
Nepali	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	20	5	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	5	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	10	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	15	10	0	0	10	0	0	5	0
Kannada	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Tamil	10	5	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	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Korean	15	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	90	55	25	0	15	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages	90	50	25	0	15	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	15	15	0	0	0	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	10	5	0	0	0	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.	60	35	20	0	10	0	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.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	70	35	20	0	15	0	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	65	30	15	0	10	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	5	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	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	5	5	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.	5	5	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.	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	215	165	10	20	25	0	0	0	0
English and French	85	65	5	20	0	0	0	0	0
English and non-official language	120	95	5	5	20	0	0	0	0
French and non-official language	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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