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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 Cambridge
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 134,960 125,720 60 7,110 2,070
Single responses 132,990 124,120 55 6,750 2,065
English 108,365 104,035 5 4,280 40
French 1,790 150 35 1,605 0
Non-official languages 22,835 19,935 15 865 2,025
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 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 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 8,965 7,535 5 290 1,130
Italian 870 770 0 70 30
Portuguese 6,435 5,340 5 110 980
Romanian 330 260 0 50 20
Spanish 1,330 1,165 0 70 100
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,930 1,820 0 110 0
Dutch 630 595 0 35 0
Flemish 15 10 0 5 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 1,180 1,110 0 65 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 65 65 0 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 20 0 5 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,315 2,135 0 115 60
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 20 0 0 0
Croatian 305 285 0 15 5
Czech 155 140 0 15 0
Macedonian 95 95 0 0 0
Polish 1,010 935 0 40 35
Russian 165 145 0 10 5
Serbian 165 150 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Slovak 100 100 0 5 0
Slovenian 35 30 0 5 0
Ukrainian 200 180 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 20 0 0 0
Greek 215 200 0 5 5
Armenian 225 195 0 25 10
Albanian 40 35 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 560 520 0 20 15
Estonian 30 30 0 5 0
Finnish 50 45 0 5 5
Hungarian 475 445 0 15 15
Turkic languages 70 65 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 725 610 0 65 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 25 0 0 5
Semitic languages 690 585 0 65 40
Amharic 35 35 0 0 0
Arabic 575 470 0 65 40
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 35 40 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,585 3,990 0 140 460
Indo-Aryan languages 3,780 3,280 0 110 395
Bengali 55 45 0 5 0
Gujarati 980 820 0 25 140
Hindi 210 195 0 5 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,440 1,225 0 45 175
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 25 0 0 0
Urdu 1,030 935 0 30 65
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 800 700 0 30 65
Kurdish 25 25 0 0 5
Pashto 585 515 0 15 50
Persian (Farsi) 185 160 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 255 235 0 10 10
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 70 0 0 5
Tamil 155 135 0 10 10
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 90 70 0 0 20
Korean 135 125 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 955 790 0 35 125
Chinese languages 950 785 0 35 125
Cantonese 255 210 0 10 30
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 5 0
Mandarin 215 175 0 5 35
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 460 390 0 15 60
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 320 275 0 10 30
Lao 270 240 0 5 15
Thai 45 35 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages 720 625 0 15 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 5
Vietnamese 710 620 0 15 80
Malayo-Polynesian languages 545 530 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 20 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 450 450 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 55 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 30 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 45 40 0 0 5
American Sign Language 30 30 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 10
Other languages 15 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,975 1,595 10 360 10
English and French 270 35 5 230 0
English and non-official language 1,620 1,530 5 80 10
French and non-official language 50 25 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 35 0

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

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