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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 Niagara Falls
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 126,810 117,670 85 7,930 1,130
Single responses 125,040 116,310 80 7,525 1,125
English 102,740 98,380 5 4,330 25
French 2,555 275 55 2,230 0
Non-official languages 19,745 17,660 20 965 1,100
Aboriginal languages 50 40 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 5 5
Algonquin 0 5 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 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 5 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 20 15 0 5 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) 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 15 15 0 0 0
Mohawk 15 15 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 6,475 5,780 0 330 365
Italian 4,875 4,425 0 215 235
Portuguese 185 170 0 15 5
Romanian 155 130 0 25 0
Spanish 1,260 1,055 0 75 125
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,220 3,010 5 135 75
Dutch 625 595 0 25 0
Flemish 20 20 0 5 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 2,450 2,275 0 100 75
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 70 70 0 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,645 3,310 5 170 170
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0 5
Bulgarian 210 190 0 15 10
Croatian 260 240 0 5 10
Czech 75 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 25 25 0 0 0
Polish 900 830 0 40 30
Russian 280 245 0 25 10
Serbian 1,150 1,010 0 50 80
Serbo-Croatian 60 50 0 5 0
Slovak 110 100 0 5 5
Slovenian 75 75 0 0 0
Ukrainian 405 380 0 15 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 0
Baltic languages 65 65 0 5 0
Latvian 40 35 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0 0
Greek 275 260 0 10 5
Armenian 15 15 0 5 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 635 585 0 30 25
Estonian 30 30 0 5 0
Finnish 50 45 0 5 0
Hungarian 560 515 0 20 25
Turkic languages 205 180 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 190 175 0 15 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 570 490 0 55 25
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 60 55 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 55 55 0 0 0
Semitic languages 510 435 0 55 15
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 445 370 0 50 20
Hebrew 15 20 0 0 0
Maltese 30 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,180 1,065 0 55 60
Indo-Aryan languages 940 850 5 35 50
Bengali 40 40 0 0 0
Gujarati 260 225 0 10 25
Hindi 140 130 0 0 5
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 170 150 0 5 10
Sindhi 20 20 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0
Urdu 255 235 0 10 5
Nepali 10 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 215 185 0 20 10
Kurdish 60 55 5 5 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 140 120 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 105 105 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0 5
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 185 170 0 10 5
Korean 340 305 0 10 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,345 1,080 0 25 240
Chinese languages 1,335 1,070 0 25 240
Cantonese 380 270 0 10 90
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 165 140 0 0 20
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 775 645 0 10 125
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 45 35 0 0 5
Lao 30 25 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 405 330 0 15 65
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 390 315 0 10 60
Malayo-Polynesian languages 665 650 0 10 10
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 600 585 0 10 5
Bikol 0 5 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 135 100 0 25 5
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0
Bantu languages 105 75 5 25 5
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 25 20 0 0 0
Swahili 40 30 0 10 5
Ganda 5 0 0 5 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 10 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creoles 80 15 0 60 0
Non-verbal languages 45 30 0 0 15
American Sign Language 30 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,770 1,355 5 400 5
English and French 315 60 0 255 0
English and non-official language 1,315 1,230 0 75 5
French and non-official language 115 50 10 55 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 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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