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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 Alma^{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	32,565	32,000	410	50	80	0	15	0	0
Single responses	32,475	31,940	400	55	75	0	10	0	0
English	145	90	30	20	0	0	5	5	0
French	32,215	31,790	365	10	45	0	5	0	0
Non-official languages	115	50	5	20	30	0	5	0	0
Aboriginal languages	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	10	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	5	0	0	5	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	5	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	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	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	60	30	0	15	10	0	0	0	0
Italian	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portuguese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romanian	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spanish	45	20	0	15	10	5	5	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dutch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
German	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Russian	5	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	5	5	0	0	0	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	5	0	0	10	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	15	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	10	0	0	0	5	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	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0	0	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)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	0	0	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	0	0	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.	0	0	0	0	0	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	5	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	0	0	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)	0	5	0	0	0	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	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	5	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)	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	5	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	85	65	15	0	5	0	0	0	0
English and French	50	35	20	0	0	0	0	0	0
English and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
French and non-official language	30	25	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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