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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 Kingston and the Islands / Kingston et les Îles
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 122,185 105,135 290 16,200 555
Single responses 120,770 104,310 290 15,625 550
English 104,580 94,170 5 10,380 25
French 4,360 220 265 3,875 0
Non-official languages 11,835 9,920 20 1,365 530
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 25 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 5 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) 5 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,915 2,320 5 380 205
Italian 610 500 5 95 10
Portuguese 1,480 1,240 0 75 160
Romanian 80 25 0 45 5
Spanish 740 545 5 160 35
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,815 1,535 0 280 5
Dutch 670 580 0 90 0
Flemish 10 10 0 0 0
Frisian 35 25 5 0 0
German 925 765 5 155 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 140 125 0 10 0
Danish 90 85 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,145 970 5 150 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 5 0
Croatian 35 30 0 5 0
Czech 120 105 0 15 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0 0
Polish 455 390 0 60 10
Russian 225 195 0 20 15
Serbian 45 30 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 5 0
Slovak 35 30 0 5 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 5 0
Ukrainian 130 105 0 20 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 40 30 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 10 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0 0 0
Greek 390 325 0 45 15
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 230 185 0 35 0
Estonian 25 15 0 5 0
Finnish 50 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 155 125 0 25 5
Turkic languages 90 75 0 10 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 85 70 0 15 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 675 500 5 140 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 665 495 5 135 30
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 615 455 0 130 30
Hebrew 25 25 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,380 1,235 0 110 35
Indo-Aryan languages 990 905 0 60 25
Bengali 165 150 0 10 10
Gujarati 115 95 0 20 5
Hindi 165 155 0 10 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 150 145 0 5 5
Sindhi 20 20 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 320 300 0 15 5
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 380 320 0 45 15
Kurdish 15 20 0 0 0
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 340 280 0 40 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 140 130 0 10 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0 0
Tamil 60 55 0 5 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 95 90 0 0 5
Korean 420 365 0 25 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,600 1,385 0 85 130
Chinese languages 1,580 1,370 0 85 125
Cantonese 330 285 0 25 25
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 395 345 0 25 30
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 840 730 0 40 70
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tai languages 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 210 175 0 15 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 60 0 5 10
Vietnamese 145 115 0 15 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 395 380 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 30 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 5 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 300 290 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 85 5 25 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 40 0 25 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 10 0 5 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 25 10 0 10 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 25 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 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Creoles 25 5 0 15 0
Non-verbal languages 35 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,415 830 0 575 5
English and French 485 75 0 410 0
English and non-official language 790 715 0 70 5
French and non-official language 90 25 0 55 5
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 0

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

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