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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 Wascana
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 81,620 75,445 85 5,240 850
Single responses 80,495 74,540 80 5,020 850
English 67,495 63,850 5 3,625 20
French 1,260 195 55 1,015 0
Non-official languages 11,735 10,500 25 385 825
Aboriginal languages 140 135 0 0 5
Algonquian languages 110 105 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 80 75 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 80 75 0 5 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 25 25 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 5 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 5 5 0 0 5
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 5 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Dakota 5 5 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 5 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) 5 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 750 630 0 100 20
Italian 145 120 0 20 0
Portuguese 35 25 0 10 0
Romanian 140 125 0 10 0
Spanish 435 350 0 60 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,765 1,700 0 50 15
Dutch 115 110 0 10 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,520 1,465 0 45 10
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 60 55 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,495 1,410 0 30 45
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 55 45 0 5 0
Czech 10 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 265 250 0 10 5
Russian 275 245 0 0 25
Serbian 90 90 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 685 670 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 110 110 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 20 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 205 190 0 10 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 185 175 0 10 0
Turkic languages 65 60 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 60 55 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 700 590 5 35 75
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 195 155 0 5 35
Oromo 35 25 0 0 10
Somali 155 130 0 0 20
Semitic languages 505 435 0 25 45
Amharic 50 40 0 0 0
Arabic 390 325 0 30 40
Hebrew 10 15 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 60 55 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,915 1,705 5 40 170
Indo-Aryan languages 1,570 1,410 0 25 135
Bengali 180 155 0 10 15
Gujarati 115 105 0 5 5
Hindi 175 170 0 0 5
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 500 460 0 5 35
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 410 390 0 5 15
Nepali 160 95 0 0 65
Iranian languages 320 270 0 15 30
Kurdish 30 30 0 0 5
Pashto 55 35 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 235 205 0 10 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 165 160 0 0 5
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 75 80 0 0 0
Telugu 50 40 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 35 0 0 5
Korean 305 245 0 5 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,030 1,630 5 35 360
Chinese languages 1,830 1,500 10 40 285
Cantonese 345 275 0 5 70
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 0 0 0 5
Fukien 5 5 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 265 0 10 40
Shanghainese 10 5 0 5 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,135 945 5 25 160
Tibetan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 190 115 0 0 75
Tai languages 105 95 0 0 10
Lao 60 55 0 0 5
Thai 45 35 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 495 440 5 10 40
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 30 0 0 5
Vietnamese 465 410 0 10 40
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,075 1,065 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 65 65 0 0 5
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 935 925 0 0 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 205 155 15 30 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 85 65 10 10 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 15 0 0 0
Swahili 25 10 10 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 25 25 0 5 0
Wolof 15 0 0 10 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 60 45 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 75 75 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Other languages 30 25 0 0 10
Multiple responses 1,125 900 5 220 5
English and French 165 30 0 135 0
English and non-official language 870 835 0 35 5
French and non-official language 60 30 0 25 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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