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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 Welland
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 111,330 98,135 295 12,335 570
Single responses 109,875 97,300 285 11,720 565
English 90,675 86,000 0 4,660 10
French 7,145 425 275 6,450 0
Non-official languages 12,055 10,875 15 610 555
Aboriginal languages 20 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 10 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 10 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 5 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 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 4,660 4,090 5 220 345
Italian 3,630 3,210 0 145 270
Portuguese 180 170 0 5 5
Romanian 45 30 0 10 5
Spanish 805 680 0 55 75
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,660 1,585 0 65 5
Dutch 735 725 0 15 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 840 790 0 45 10
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 55 50 0 5 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,260 2,100 0 90 65
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 45 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 390 365 0 10 10
Czech 50 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 765 705 0 30 35
Russian 160 135 0 20 10
Serbian 50 50 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 190 185 0 5 0
Slovenian 95 90 0 5 0
Ukrainian 470 440 0 20 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 50 50 0 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 35 30 0 5 0
Greek 125 120 0 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 5
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 870 840 0 25 10
Estonian 15 15 0 0 0
Finnish 35 35 0 5 0
Hungarian 820 790 5 20 10
Turkic languages 35 25 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 560 460 0 80 20
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0 0
Semitic languages 535 435 0 75 20
Amharic 10 5 0 0 0
Arabic 425 335 0 70 20
Hebrew 15 15 0 5 0
Maltese 65 60 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 465 425 0 20 20
Indo-Aryan languages 380 345 0 15 15
Bengali 25 20 0 0 0
Gujarati 100 85 0 10 10
Hindi 55 50 0 0 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 60 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 120 110 0 5 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 80 75 0 5 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 65 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 70 70 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 35 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 35 0 0 5
Korean 185 170 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 450 390 0 10 50
Chinese languages 450 390 0 10 50
Cantonese 85 70 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 95 75 0 5 15
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 260 240 0 5 20
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 50 45 0 0 0
Lao 35 35 0 5 5
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 100 85 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0 0
Vietnamese 75 65 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 260 250 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0 0
Malay 10 15 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 210 205 0 0 0
Bikol 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 75 55 0 20 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 45 30 0 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 25 25 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 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. 15 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Creoles 70 20 5 50 0
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,460 840 5 615 5
English and French 605 95 5 505 0
English and non-official language 765 715 0 45 5
French and non-official language 70 20 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0

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

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