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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 VictoriaFootnote 1
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 107,810 93,000 65 13,900 850
Single responses 106,415 92,075 55 13,445 845
English 90,485 79,935 10 10,515 25
French 1,925 160 40 1,720 0
Non-official languages 14,005 11,975 5 1,205 810
Aboriginal languages 65 65 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 10 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 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. 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 15 15 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 5 5 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Gitksan 10 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 5 10 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 10 10 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 1,655 1,345 5 265 40
Italian 325 255 0 70 0
Portuguese 270 225 0 35 15
Romanian 95 60 0 35 5
Spanish 965 810 0 125 25
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 2,495 2,075 0 410 10
Dutch 535 440 0 95 0
Flemish 20 10 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,500 1,240 0 255 0
Yiddish 25 20 0 10 0
Scandinavian languages 350 310 0 35 5
Danish 175 160 0 10 5
Icelandic 20 10 0 5 0
Norwegian 70 65 0 5 0
Swedish 90 80 0 10 0
Afrikaans 55 50 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 20 0 10 0
Gaelic languages 15 5 0 5 0
Welsh 15 10 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,590 1,370 0 170 50
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 50 35 0 10 5
Croatian 140 135 0 10 5
Czech 120 100 0 20 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 435 370 0 55 10
Russian 395 335 0 30 25
Serbian 65 55 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 40 30 5 5 5
Slovak 55 60 0 0 0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 220 195 0 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 50 45 0 10 0
Latvian 25 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 5 0
Greek 110 100 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 5 0
Albanian 55 55 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 380 350 0 30 5
Estonian 20 15 0 5 0
Finnish 90 80 0 5 0
Hungarian 270 250 0 15 5
Turkic languages 75 70 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 70 60 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 625 505 5 80 40
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 40 40 0 0 0
Oromo 25 25 0 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages 580 465 0 75 40
Amharic 55 55 0 0 0
Arabic 465 360 0 70 35
Hebrew 35 30 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 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 1,020 915 0 55 45
Indo-Aryan languages 690 635 0 25 35
Bengali 60 50 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 0
Hindi 100 100 0 5 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 360 330 0 15 20
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0 5 0
Urdu 75 65 0 0 10
Nepali 10 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 320 270 0 35 15
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 315 265 0 35 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 20 25 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 585 540 0 25 20
Korean 575 500 0 25 40
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,165 2,580 0 70 510
Chinese languages 3,160 2,575 0 75 510
Cantonese 925 740 0 20 170
Chaochow (Teochow) 5 5 0 0 5
Fukien 10 10 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 760 660 0 25 75
Shanghainese 5 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 25 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,425 1,130 0 25 265
Tibetan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 105 100 0 0 5
Lao 5 10 0 0 0
Thai 95 90 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 235 210 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 210 185 0 10 15
Malayo-Polynesian languages 950 935 0 10 5
Bisayan languages 95 85 0 0 5
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malay 40 35 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 750 740 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 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 100 85 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 65 0 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 35 30 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Creoles 20 15 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 35 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 5
Other languages 5 0 0 0 5
Multiple responses 1,395 925 5 450 10
English and French 340 70 0 270 5
English and non-official language 935 815 0 110 10
French and non-official language 80 30 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 40 15 0 30 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

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