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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 Thunder Bay - Superior North / Thunder Bay - Superior-Nord
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 79,710 71,105 235 8,020 350
Single responses 78,725 70,395 225 7,755 345
English 65,355 61,090 5 4,245 15
French 3,650 270 220 3,160 0
Non-official languages 9,720 9,035 10 350 335
Aboriginal languages 990 965 0 15 10
Algonquian languages 970 945 5 10 10
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 70 65 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 70 65 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 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 735 715 0 5 10
Oji-Cree 160 160 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 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 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 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,630 2,370 0 115 150
Italian 2,065 1,875 0 75 115
Portuguese 330 300 0 15 20
Romanian 35 30 0 10 0
Spanish 200 170 0 20 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 885 835 0 45 5
Dutch 180 170 0 10 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 570 535 5 30 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 120 120 0 0 0
Danish 65 65 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 5 0
Swedish 40 35 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,630 1,550 0 50 25
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 285 270 0 10 5
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 605 575 5 15 10
Russian 85 75 0 10 0
Serbian 30 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 70 65 0 5 0
Slovenian 95 95 0 0 0
Ukrainian 385 370 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 80 80 0 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 2,335 2,190 0 65 75
Estonian 50 45 0 0 0
Finnish 2,225 2,085 0 60 80
Hungarian 60 60 0 5 0
Turkic languages 15 10 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 140 120 0 20 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 135 110 0 15 5
Amharic 10 5 0 0 0
Arabic 120 100 0 20 5
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 290 265 0 15 15
Indo-Aryan languages 210 200 0 5 10
Bengali 25 20 0 0 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 0
Hindi 40 35 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 30 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 60 60 0 0 0
Nepali 25 25 0 0 0
Iranian languages 75 65 0 5 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 70 60 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 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 20 15 0 0 0
Korean 20 25 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 345 305 0 10 30
Chinese languages 285 250 0 10 20
Cantonese 45 40 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 40 5 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 180 165 0 10 10
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 20 20 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 5
Tai languages 10 10 0 5 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 80 80 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 80 80 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 125 125 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 100 95 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 5 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creoles 10 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 0 0 5 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 985 715 5 270 0
English and French 265 55 5 215 0
English and non-official language 645 615 5 30 5
French and non-official language 60 35 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0

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

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