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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 Nanaimo - Alberni
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 125,975 117,850 35 7,740 350
Single responses 124,930 117,095 40 7,455 350
English 111,860 106,550 5 5,300 10
French 1,935 320 30 1,585 0
Non-official languages 11,140 10,220 5 575 340
Aboriginal languages 270 270 0 0 5
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 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. 10 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 5 0 5 0
Lillooet 0 5 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 190 190 0 5 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 175 180 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 10 10 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 0 0 5
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 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 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,025 890 0 105 20
Italian 470 430 0 35 5
Portuguese 90 75 0 10 5
Romanian 55 35 0 15 0
Spanish 415 355 0 50 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,275 3,995 0 265 10
Dutch 1,170 1,070 5 90 0
Flemish 25 15 0 10 0
Frisian 20 10 0 5 0
German 2,295 2,160 0 135 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 650 630 0 25 0
Danish 335 325 0 10 0
Icelandic 15 15 0 5 0
Norwegian 160 155 0 0 0
Swedish 145 135 0 5 0
Afrikaans 110 105 0 5 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 50 40 0 10 0
Gaelic languages 30 20 0 5 0
Welsh 20 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,390 1,295 0 70 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 10 0 0 0
Croatian 230 220 0 0 5
Czech 140 125 0 10 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0 0
Polish 290 265 0 25 5
Russian 180 160 0 10 10
Serbian 55 45 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 55 50 0 0 0
Slovenian 65 65 0 0 0
Ukrainian 325 315 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5 0
Greek 80 70 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 425 395 0 25 0
Estonian 25 25 0 0 0
Finnish 155 145 0 5 0
Hungarian 240 225 0 15 0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 75 60 0 10 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 65 55 0 10 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 45 35 0 10 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,175 1,045 0 25 100
Indo-Aryan languages 1,085 960 0 25 100
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 40 0 5 0
Hindi 80 70 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 900 790 0 15 95
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 25 20 0 0 5
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 90 85 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 85 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 210 200 0 5 5
Korean 315 280 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 965 850 0 15 95
Chinese languages 960 845 0 15 95
Cantonese 185 165 0 0 20
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 250 215 0 10 25
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 30 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 480 435 0 0 45
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 40 45 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 40 40 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 225 200 0 5 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 10 0 5 5
Vietnamese 210 190 0 5 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 455 440 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampango 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 390 375 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 35 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 25 10 0 5 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,045 755 5 285 5
English and French 290 90 0 200 0
English and non-official language 670 625 5 45 0
French and non-official language 50 30 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 25 0

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

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