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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 Saanich - Gulf Islands
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 115,745 103,935 35 10,685 1,095
Single responses 114,435 102,960 30 10,350 1,090
English 96,530 88,590 5 7,905 30
French 1,530 145 20 1,370 0
Non-official languages 16,375 14,225 5 1,075 1,065
Aboriginal languages 215 205 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 5 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 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 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 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 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 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 185 185 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 50 45 0 5 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 135 135 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 10 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 5 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 1,735 1,480 5 200 50
Italian 415 355 5 55 0
Portuguese 520 465 0 30 25
Romanian 90 60 0 25 0
Spanish 705 590 0 90 25
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 3,255 2,890 0 365 5
Dutch 925 825 0 95 0
Flemish 15 5 0 10 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 1,870 1,640 0 225 5
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 390 360 0 30 0
Danish 210 190 0 20 0
Icelandic 10 15 0 0 0
Norwegian 90 85 0 0 0
Swedish 75 70 0 10 0
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 45 35 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Welsh 25 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,340 1,190 0 115 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5 0
Croatian 185 170 0 10 5
Czech 95 90 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 370 330 0 35 5
Russian 245 210 0 25 10
Serbian 55 45 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 50 35 0 10 5
Slovenian 30 25 0 5 0
Ukrainian 250 230 0 15 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 5 0
Baltic languages 35 35 0 5 5
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Greek 145 135 0 10 5
Armenian 25 10 0 10 0
Albanian 25 25 0 0 5
Georgian 10 10 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 375 350 0 25 0
Estonian 30 25 0 0 0
Finnish 105 100 0 10 0
Hungarian 245 230 0 15 0
Turkic languages 45 45 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 45 40 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 325 245 0 70 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Oromo 20 15 0 0 0
Somali 15 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages 295 215 0 65 15
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 240 165 0 50 20
Hebrew 25 10 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,040 1,760 0 85 190
Indo-Aryan languages 1,825 1,575 0 65 185
Bengali 40 35 0 5 0
Gujarati 55 45 0 5 0
Hindi 125 115 0 5 5
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1,500 1,275 5 50 170
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 5 5
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 215 185 0 20 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 5 0
Pashto 5 5 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 75 70 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 40 35 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 400 345 0 20 30
Korean 540 475 0 15 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,530 3,785 5 95 650
Chinese languages 4,510 3,760 0 95 650
Cantonese 1,400 1,115 0 30 255
Chaochow (Teochow) 10 15 0 0 5
Fukien 15 15 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 935 815 0 25 90
Shanghainese 15 15 0 0 0
Taiwanese 40 35 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,080 1,745 0 45 295
Tibetan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 10 15 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 65 65 0 5 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 60 60 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 210 185 0 15 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 200 175 0 15 10
Malayo-Polynesian languages 830 815 0 10 0
Bisayan languages 60 60 0 0 5
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 0
Malay 35 30 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 685 675 0 10 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 50 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 10 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 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. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 20 10 0 0 15
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,310 975 0 330 0
English and French 245 60 0 185 0
English and non-official language 975 890 0 80 0
French and non-official language 55 20 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 40 10 0 35 0

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

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